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  2. Early life. Born Nontsikelo Thethiwe in the Tsomo district of the Transkei on 21 October 1918, she was the second of five children of Bonilizwe and Monikazi Thethiwe. Sisulu's mother survived the Spanish Flu, but was constantly ill and very weak because of this.

  3. Jun 2, 2011 · Albertina Sisulu was one of five children born to Bonilizwe and Monikazi Thethiwe in the Tsomo district in the Transkei on 21 October 1918. She was a nurse, a political activist and council to her husband former Secretary-General and Deputy President of the African National Congress (ANC), Walter Sisulu. Early Life.

  4. May 20, 2019 · Early Life . Nontsikelelo Thethiwe was born in the village of Camama, Transkei, South Africa, on October 21, 1918, to Bonilizwe and Monica Thethiwe. Her father Bonilizwe arranged for the family to live in nearby Xolobe while he was working in the mines; he died when she was 11.

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    EARLY YEARS. Albertina Sisulu was born Nontsikelelo (Ntsiki) Thethiwe on 21 October 1918 in the Eastern Cape village of Camama, to Bonilizwe and Monica Thethiwe. Nontsikelelo, in isiXhosa, means ‘blessing’. Bonilizwe was a mineworker and was often away.

  6. Albertina Sisulu was born in 1918 among the Xhosa people in the Tsomo district of the Transkei, South Africa. Orphaned in youth, her ambition to be a teacher was frustrated by the need to support her younger siblings. She later finished grade school and trained as a nurse at the Johannesburg Non-European Hospital.

  7. Early Life. Nontsikelelo Albertina Thethiwe was born on October 21, 1918, in the Transkei (now in the Eastern Cape province). As a child she helped to raise her four brothers and sisters. Her original ambition was to become a nun or a teacher. However, she studied nursing instead in order to support her family.

  8. Oct 22, 2018 · Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu, affectionately known as Ma Sisulu, has been described countless times as a caring and service-oriented individual who spent her life uplifting those around her in her multiple capacities as nurse, freedom fighter, mother, or wife.

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