Biographies
37 records
Filtered: (FEDSAW) Federation of South African Women ×
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0150453 | biography | Hettie Du Preez | – | ✓ |
| B-0150379 | biography | Lettie Malindi | 1922-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0150327 | biography | Hettie McCleod | 1922-1997 | ✓ |
| B-0150323 | biography | Mary Margaret Ngalo | 1973 | ✓ |
| B-0150276 | biography | Winifred Seqwana | 1897-1961 | ✓ |
| B-0068678 | biography | Florence Elizabeth Mnumzana | 1919-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0068449 | biography | Gertrude Shope | 1925 | ✓ |
| B-0068385 | biography | Magdaline ‘Maggie’ Resha | 1923-2003 | ✓ |
| B-0068382 | biography | Mary Goitsemang Ranta | 1922 | – |
| B-0068245 | biography | Lillian Masediba Ngoyi | 1911-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0068196 | biography | Manonmoney "Ama" Naidoo | 1908-1993 | ✓ |
| B-0068085 | biography | Ruth Mompati | 1925-2015 | ✓ |
| B-0067964 | biography | Ida Fiyo Mntwana | 1903-1960 | – |
| B-0067957 | biography | Florence Mkhize | 1932-1999 | – |
| B-0067956 | biography | Bertha Mkhize | 1889 | – |
Hettie Du Preez
Hettie du Preez has made an outstanding contribution to the struggle against political and economic injustice in South Africa. She was a…
Lettie Malindi
Lettie Malindi was born in Firgrove, near Stellenbosch, on 26 March 1922, the fifth of eleven children. Her father, John Matibi, was a…
Hettie McCleod
Hettie McCleod was born on 27 June 1922 in Goodwood, Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape). She was the youngest of five children …
Mary Margaret Ngalo
Mary Margaret Ngalo was born in Cradock, Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province) to Tom and Leah Plaatjie. As the niece of Reverend Canon…
Winifred Seqwana
Winifred Seqwana was born in 1897 and settled in Cape Town, where she became the first African woman member of the Communist Party of South…
Florence Elizabeth Mnumzana
Florence Elizabeth Mnumzana (née Mhinga) was born on 21 February 1919 in Mhinga Village, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo), into the Mhinga…
Gertrude Shope
Gertrude Shope was born in Johannesburg, but grew up in Zimbabwe. She was trained as a teacher, and went on to teach in Natal and Soweto…
Magdaline ‘Maggie’ Resha
Magdaline Resha was born on the 5th of May 1923 in Matatiele, Eastern Cape. She was the second daughter of Mr. Oziel Tsekiso and Lidia…
Mary Goitsemang Ranta
Ranta was born in 1922 and grew up in the Pretoria area. After leaving school, she worked as a ‘tea girl’ at the Pretoria mint, and later…
Lillian Masediba Ngoyi
Lillian Masediba Ngoyi was born in Pretoria in 1911 to a family of six children, and obtained her primary schooling in Kilnerton. She later…
Manonmoney "Ama" Naidoo
Manonmony Pillay was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 30 November 1908. Her family was originally from the Thanjavur district…
Ruth Mompati
Ruth Mompati was born on 14 September 1925 in the village called Khanyesa in the North West Province. She was the daughter of Seli Seichoko…
Ida Fiyo Mntwana
Ida was born in 1903 and worked as a dressmaker. She was the first president of the African National Congress Women’s League and a leader…
Florence Mkhize
Florence Grace Mkhize, widely known as 'Mam Flo', was born in 1932 in Natal. At a young age she decided she wanted to fight against…
Bertha Mkhize
Bertha Mkhize was born in 1889 in Embo, near Mkhomazi. Her father, an ox wagon driver died when Bertha was about four years old, after his…