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Vera Ponnen
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Sep 27, 2011

Vera Ponnen

Member of the Housewives League and the South African Federation of Democratic Women, co-founder of the Non-European Sol...

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Mzwakhe Mbuli
Biography
May 29, 2012

Mzwakhe Mbuli

The musician and political activist Mzwakhe Mbuli has played an essential role in the musical culture of South Africa be...

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Biography
Sep 27, 2011

Thayanayagie (Thailema) Pillay

Political activist, political prisoner, organised women resisters from the Asiatic Bazaar for the 1946 Passive Resistanc...

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Klass Makhosana Mahlangu
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Aug 22, 2019

Klass Makhosana Mahlangu

Chief and Community leader in Ndzundza-Mabhoko tribe.

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Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
Biography
May 31, 2012

Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo

Political activist, academic, journalist, playwright, poet

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Nomathamsanqa Xoliswa Ngwevela
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Sep 22, 2011

Nomathamsanqa Xoliswa Ngwevela

Member of the ANC in exile, worked in the ANC Department of International Affairs, on the North American and European De...

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Rita Alice Ndzanga
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Sep 21, 2011

Rita Alice Ndzanga

Secretary of the Railway Workers Union, banned person

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Shulamith Muller
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Sep 12, 2011

Shulamith Muller

Attorney, Member of the South African Communist Party, National General Secretary of the National Union of Distributive ...

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Joan Morice
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Sep 06, 2011

Joan Morice

South Africa’s first qualified veterinarian

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Florence Mophosho
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Sep 06, 2011

Florence Mophosho

Full time organiser for the ANC, mobilised for the Congress of the People and the 1956 Women's March, headed the Women's...

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Kate Dinkwetsi Molale
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Aug 30, 2011

Kate Dinkwetsi Molale

Secretary General of the Sophiatown branch of the ANC, represented the ANC Women’s Section at the Women’s International ...

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Aug 27, 2011

Ida Fiyo Mntwana

First president of the African National Congress Women’s League, elected to the ANC Executive Committee, National ...

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Margaret Chuene Mncadi
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Aug 27, 2011

Margaret Chuene Mncadi

Physician, member of the African National Congress (ANC), Vice-president of the ANC Women's League in Natal  

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Bertha Mkhize
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Aug 27, 2011

Bertha Mkhize

  Tailor, member of the Industrial Workers’ Union (ICU), took part in campaigns against passes for women in

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Margaret Nash
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Aug 17, 2011

Margaret Nash

Member of the National Executive Committee of the  Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA), Black Sash, South African ...

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