Struggle veteran Amina Cachalia passed away at Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg on Thursday (January 31 2012). She was 82. Picture: Johann Hattingh/Foto24

A picture from the time when the Freedom Charter was adopted in 1955.

Albertina Sisulu (left), political activist who became known as “mother of the nation”, fellow activist Helen Joseph (centre) and Amina Cachalia in the 1980s.

Amina Cachalia, Nadine Gordimer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (centre), and Helen Suzman, former member of Parliament (MP) for 36 years – 13 of which were served as the only liberal MP.

Amina Cachalia was a long-time friend of former president Nelson Mandela. Picture: John Hogg