Published February 18, 2026 | Version v1
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Zainunnisa "Cissie" Gool and Anti-Fascist Politics in Cape Town, 1930s-1960s

  • 1. ROR icon Research Council of Finland
  • 2. ROR icon University of Helsinki

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Gool ARCGiS Data Sheet_Offset Coordinates.xlsx

Dataset Title: Zainunnisa "Cissie" Gool and Anti-Fascist Politics in Cape Town, 1930s-1960s
Version: 1.0
Date: February 18, 2026
Creator: Moshumee Dewoo
Contact: moshumee.dewoo@helsinki.fi / moshumee.dewoo@gmail.com

This Excel file contains 70 geospatial events from the life and activism of Zainunnisa "Cissie" Gool (1897–1963), a leading South African anti-apartheid, anti-fascist, communist, feminist, and Cape Town City Councillor. It emphasises her view that apartheid and its precursors were forms of fascism or proto-fascism. Coordinates are slightly offset for mapping clarity.

Purpose: Designed for ArcGIS visualisation, for the Locating Global Protest Against the Extreme Right project, Political History, University of Helsinki: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/projects/anti-fascism-anti-racism-and-internationalism-multiethnic-metropoles.

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