Pretoria - Late ANC veteran Bertha Gxowa,76, who died on Friday from complications after an operation, will be buried on Saturday, 27 November.
President Jacob Zuma has declared her funeral a special provincial funeral, the Presidency said on Monday.
"In this regard, the President has authorised that the National Flag be flown at half-mast at every flag station in the Gauteng province on Saturday... the day of the funeral," said Zuma's office.
The funeral service will be held at Huntersfield in Ekurhuleni at 8am. She will then be laid to rest at Thomas Nkobi (South Park) cemetery.
Born on 28 November 1934 in Germiston, Ma-Bertha dedicated her life to the struggle against apartheid and the building of a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa.
Gxowa, was one of the organisers of the historic women's anti-pass march in Pretoria in 1956.
Between 1956 and 1958, she was a defendant in the Treason Trial and in 1960 she was banned under the Suppression of Communism Act, a status she held in for 11 years.
After the first democratic election in 1994, Gxowa was elected to Parliament where she served as a member of the Home Affairs and Health Parliamentary Portfolio Committees from 1994 to 2004. She later served as ANC electoral commission chairperson during the 52nd ANC National Conference in Polokwane, Limpopo.
Her other activities involved sitting as chairperson on the boards of two women's skills development projects, Malibongwe and Kwazekwasa - which are both are committed to the total emancipation of women.
