History of Women’s struggle in South Africa

Shopsteward, Secretary and Organizer of the central branch of the GWU of South Africa

Singer

banned person, political prisoner, Member of SASO, BPC and BCP, medical doctor, academic, anthropologist, Vice Chancello...

Teacher, anti-pass activist, and civil rights campaigner. Cape provincial organiser of the African National Congress Wom...

She joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1952, and in 1954 participated in the establishment of the ANC Women’s...

Member of the SACP, Founder member of the Cape Town Friends of Cuba Society

Author, journalist, anti-apartheid activist, co-founded the Africa Bureau, first person to record the ANC’s history

South African political activist.

Writer, women's rights campaigner, ANC member and politician

Shop steward for the Cape Town Food and Canning Workers’ Union, member of the Transvaal Indian Congress, helped organise...

Musician and Singer, exiled person

Member of the Companions Catholic Order, helped form local women’s organisations in the Transvaal region and in 1984 was...

Political leader, academic, publisher, author, human rights and gender activist and Gandhian.

Teacher, member of the ANC, chairperson of the Central Western Jabavu Branch of the Federation of South African Women (F...

Minister of Defence and Military veterans, Former anti-apartheid guerilla, Chairperson of the National Council of Provin...

Medical doctor, community activist and author.

Journalist, Legal Advisor to Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, jailed from 1966-1970 under the Suppression of Communism Act, c...

The first Black woman to register as a medical doctor in South Africa, founder member of the Young Women’s Christian Ass...

British welfare campaigner who is primarily remembered for her work related to British concentration camps in South Afri...

Peace activist, Social Worker, Founder of Natal Organisation of Women,  member of the NIC, ANC and the UDF, Member ...

Actress and teacher

One of the leaders and organisers of the 1956 Women's Anti-Pass March.

Community worker. 

Member of the African National Congress, business woman, Governor of the Reserve Bank.

Activist and Martyr. Died as a result of her participation in the South African liberation struggle.

Nurse, midwife, lawyer and member of the UDF and NOW

Medical doctor, Vice President of the Natal Indian Congress and a pioneer in women's resistance

Political activist and trade unionist (1950s)

Political activist, TIC Member and medical doctor

Violet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger was born on 11th of January 1894 in Scotland. She emigrated to South Africa with h...

anti-apartheid activist, trade unionist, arrested, General Secretary of the African Food and Canning Workers Union, bann...

Trade Unionist, member of the East London Worker’s Civic League and Secretary of the Congress of Democrats (CoD) in 1954...

Political Activist.

author, literator, journalist, editor, academic, first woman to become Chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch

music lecturer,  founder of the Young Citizen’s Orchestra, served on executive council of the Johannesburg Music So...

Teacher and headmistress

Trade Unionist, Garment Worker’s Union, Playright

Political and women's activist and trade unionist

Teacher, politcal activist and leader of the women's organisation Black Sash.