Nomination for the Women's Project: Lillian Ngoyi, Charlote Maxeke and Helen Joseph as NHS

Lilian Masediba Ngoyi and Helen Joseph, Charlotte Mmakgomo Maxeke were also involved in the
protests on the Witwatersrand about equality and better working conditions for women. The introduction
of Lilian Ngoyi and Helen Joseph into politics was co-incidentally through a General Secretary of the
Garment Workers Union, Lillian as an ordinary factory worker and Helen as a Union official and a close
friend. This was in 1952 during the National Defiance Campaign called by the Congress Alliance in terms
of the African National Congress's 1949 Programme of Action