South African Communist Party (SACP) first deputy-secretary, Solly Mapaila, delivers the Dora Tamana memorial lecture at Community House in Salt River, Cape Town.
Dora Tamana was an anti-apartheid activist who died in 1983. Tamana was a lifelong communist and member of the ANC (African National Congress). Tamana was a founding member of the South African Federation of Women (FEDSAW) and was elected as its first National Secretary in 1954. In 1955 the apartheid government banned her from attending political gatherings for five years. She was also part of the 1956 Women's March to the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
