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ArchiveThe Legacy Series - Celebrating Women in South African History (Department of Education booklet)
BiographySelloane Ethel Leisa
… ticle/2016-08-25-60-iconic-women-the-people-behind-the-1956-womens-march-to-pretoria-11-20/ . (Accessed on 28 July 2020) …
BiographyJames Maci
James Maci, from the Maci Tribal Area, Harding District, Natal [KwaZulu-Natal] was banished on 12 October 1959 to the Kalkspruit Native Trust Farm No. 812,…
The Lady in White: British Imperial Loyalism and Women’s Volunteerism in Second World War Durban by Jonathan Hyslop (Journal of Natal and Zulu History), 2018
The Women’s Peace Train, launched in Kampala on 15 August, leaves the city on its way to Johannesburg to be in time for the Wor
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BiographyMatsie Angelina Motshekga [Angie Motshekga]
Early Life and Teaching Career Matsie Angelina Motshekga (popularly known as Angie Motshekga) was born on 19 June 1955 in Soweto, Transvaal (now known as…
BiographyGladys Thomas
Gladys Thomas born was in 1935 in Salt River, Cape Town. She was adopted by a family in Lakeside, Cape Town in Western Cape as she was an orphan. She grew up…
BiographyEllen Elmendorp
Ellen Elmendorp was born in the Netherlands and is a freelance documentary photographer based in South Africa.She has lived in Poland, Spain, Argentina,…
BiographyStella Nyanzi
Dr Stella Nyanzi was born in Masaka District, Buganda Kingdom in Uganda on 16 June 1974. Also known as Nnalongo (which means mother of twins), she is a medical…
BiographySonja Schlesin
Sonja Schlesin was born in Moscow on 6 June 1888 to Isidor Schlesin and his wife Helena Dorothy (nee Schloss). The Schlesin family later immigrated to South…
BiographyShanthivathie (Shanthie) Naidoo
Shanthivathie (Shanthie), the eldest of five children of Ama and Naransamy "Naran" Naidoo (Roy), was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 6 March 1935…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of 1956 Women’s March: Union Buildings, Tshwane, 9 August 2006
Programme Directors, Ntombazana Botha and Barbara Creecy, Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Your Excellency, Vice…
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
Adrian Leftwich grew up in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape), in 1940 in a liberal Jewish family. His father was a doctor, and his mother gave…
BiographyMrs. N. Parenithama Pillay
Mrs. N. Pillay (Parenithama), mother-in-law of Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo, was part of the first group of Transvaal women who went to Natal (now…
BiographyNomhlangano Beauty Mkhize
Nomhlangano Beauty Mkhize was born on 12 April 1940 in Sophiatown, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng). Her family’s forced removal from Sophiatown to Meadowlands…
BiographyRay Harmel (nee Adler)
Ray (or Taube, her Yiddish name) Harmel was born in Lithuania in 1905. Strongly influenced by some of her six brothers, she joined the-then illegal Lithuanian…
How Igbo women used petitions to influence British authorities during colonial rule
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 prominent figure in…
BiographySara “Saartjie” Baartman
… (2002) “ Who is Sara Baartman and why have we named our womens center after her ” From Saartjie Baartman Center, 3 …
BiographyChris McGregor
Christopher McGregor was born on 24 December 1936 in Somerset West in the Western Cape. He grew up in Blythswood in the Transkei (now a part of the Eastern…
BiographyMadimetja Lawrence Phokanoka
Madimetja Lawrence Phokanoka was born on 10 June 1938 in Raphahla Village in Sekhukhuneland, in the Middelburg District. His father, Jacob Marwale Phokanoka…
BiographyZainab Ebrahim Asvat
Zainab Ebrahim Asvat was born 1920 in Johannesburg, daughter of EI Asvat, came under the tutelage of her father as a young girl. She accompanied him to…
BiographyLesley Lawson
One of the founding members of Afrapix, Lesley Lawson was born in Durban in 1952. She matriculated from Durban Girls College and attended the University of…
BiographyElizabeth Mafekeng
Elizabeth Mafekeng was born in 1918 in Tarkastad and attended school until Standard 7. Living conditions in her birthplace forced her to leave for Paarl in…
BiographyBiddy Partridge
Bridget June Partridge was born in 1950 in Kenya and raised in South Africa. Biddy Partridge first began work as a freelance photographer for the South…
BiographyMary Thipe
… ticle/2016-08-25-60-iconic-women-the-people-behind-the-1956-womens-march-to-pretoria-41-50/ . (Accessed on 6 May 2020) …
BiographyPule Mabe
Puleng Peter Mabe (Pule Mabe) was born on 19 March 1980 in Namakgale, Phalaborwa, Northern Transvaal (now known as Limpopo Province). He was raised by a single…
BiographyNontetha Nkwenkwe
Nontetha Nkwenkwe is one of the most remarkable female religious leaders associated with independent churches in the 1920s. Born in King Williamstown in 1875,…
Janet Burnside Soga
… involved with the Girls Association (as secretary) and the Womens Manyano. She died at Darabe in the Elliotdale district …
BiographyJoseph (Anti-Pass) M. Kumalo
During the 1955-1956 Evaton bus boycott Kumalo was banished in terms of the 1927 Native Administration Act to Duiwelskloof. From there he was brought to stand…