Tryphina Mboxela Jokweni was a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and was part of the 1956 Union Buildings March which saw 20 000 women march to Pretoria on 9 August. The march inspired her to become an uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) cadre in 1962, working under the leadership of ANC veteran Billy Nair. She was arrested in 1966 for her political activities in her hometown, Umkhumbane, Durban and detained for six months.
Jokweni then moved to Umlazi, Durban where she her home was used as a safe house for MK cadres. In April 1987 she was detained and tortured for this by the apartheid police based in Amanzimtoti, south of Durban. Jokweni passed away from illness in 2002 and left behind three children. She was 77 years-old at the time of her death.
On 29 August 2012, the ANC commemorated Jokweni and recognized her contributions to the liberation struggle by laying a new tombstone for her at the Wentworth Cemetery, Durban, where she is buried.
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