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Vivienne Ncakeni

Vivienne Ncakeni portrait

Updated
15 Jun 2020
Vivienne Ncakeni portrait

Summary

  Teacher and member of the Transvaal African Teachers' Association and the African National Congress Youth League  
Vivienne Ncakeni was born in Brakpan, she was educated in the Transvaal and Natal and trained as a teacher. She returned to Brakpan to teach in the late 1930s and became one of the most outspoken members of the Transvaal African Teachers\' Association, serving on the TATA executive and on the action committee that planned the teachers\' campaign for better wages and conditions in the early 1940s. She was also a participant and speaker at some of the foundation meetings of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL).

How we know this

  1. 01• Gerhart G.M and Karis T. (ed)(1977). From Protest to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 - 1964. Hoover Institution Pres: Stanford University.

Last updated · 15 Jun 2020

Cite this entry

South African History Online. (2019, August 22). Vivienne Ncakeni. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0144792

South African History Online (2019) 'Vivienne Ncakeni', South African History Online, 22 August. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0144792 (Accessed: 27 August 2026).

South African History Online, Vivienne Ncakeni [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0144792, (accessed 27 August 2026).

"Vivienne Ncakeni." South African History Online, 22 Aug. 2019, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0144792. Accessed 27 Aug. 2026.

South African History Online. "Vivienne Ncakeni." South African History Online. August 22, 2019. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0144792.

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