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South Africans Mourn Bertha Solomon, Leading Advocate of Women’s Rights

Wide sections of the South Africa public joined the Jewish community in mourning the death of Mrs. Bertha Solomon, the second woman to be admitted to the South African bar and a lifelong crusader for women’s rights. Mrs. Solomon, who retired from active political life in 1958 after 20 years in Parliament, was 77 years […]

August 18, 1969
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Wide sections of the South Africa public joined the Jewish community in mourning the death of Mrs. Bertha Solomon, the second woman to be admitted to the South African bar and a lifelong crusader for women’s rights. Mrs. Solomon, who retired from active political life in 1958 after 20 years in Parliament, was 77 years old. She was the daughter of the late Idel Schwartz, who emigrated from Russia to South Africa before the turn of the century and was one of Cape Town’s Zionist pioneers.

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