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in 1954 to work on community projects in the Blouvlei informal settlement. As far back as 1948, Tamana had started a community creche at a private house, but it had stopped after two and half years because of a lack of funding. The three women raised funds and established the Blouvlei Nursery School
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She was involved in a wide range of charity organisations, usually together with other women from the Black Sash and the Communist Party. She was a member of the Athlone Committee for Nursery Education. The Athlone Committee founded the first nursery school for Coloured children in Athlone in 1949
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on 1 December 1950 as a charity fund-raiser for underprivileged areas. Her and Margaret Molteno (chair and founder of the Athlone Committee) joined up with the Blouvlei community leader
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during his negotiations with the Apartheid government. In 1960 she was arrested and spent three months in jail.
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among other institutions. In 1940 she married Himan (Himie) Bernadt and she had three children.
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She was under government banning orders from 1959 to 1964. Later she housed
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Blouvlei Nursery: Mandela-sponsored Revamp Rejuvenates 60 year old creche
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In 2008, Jean Bernadt and her husband were commemorated and awarded the
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and family health centre according to Tamana's plans in May 1955.
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Tasmin Cupido: Peoples Post Retreat. Cape Town. 1 May 2014. p.3.
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List of people subject to banning orders under apartheid
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in silver for opposing racism and defending the anti-
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Index

anti-apartheid
Communist Party of South Africa
Federation of South African Women
Black Sash
Cape Town
New York University
American Literature
Maynardville Open-Air Theatre
Dora Tamana
Nelson Mandela
Order of Luthuli
apartheid
List of people subject to banning orders under apartheid
"Black Sash - Making Human Rights Real - in memory of Jean Bernadt"
the original


"Jean Bernadt (nee Alkin) | South African History Online"
"Jean Bernadt (nee Alkin)"
"Farewell to an icon who spent her life fighting apartheid"
"Family life: My mother in Cape Town before her arrest; Bless This House; ice-cream pudding"
ISSN
0261-3077
Categories
1914 births
2011 deaths
White South African anti-apartheid activists
South African anti-apartheid activists
Black Sash
South African women civil rights activists

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