Frances Rix Ames
… (now Gauteng ), on 20 April 1920. Her father deserted the family when she was still an infant, leaving her mother, … sister, penniless, to raise three daughters on her own. The family moved to Cape Town , Cape Province (now Western … in the Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province ). In 1964, Ames became the first woman to receive UCT’s Doctor of …