Women

Scriptwriter, theatre director, poet, cultural worker and activist, trade unionist, conductor of creative writing worksh...

The first registered professional Black nurse in South Africa, early activist in the struggle for women’s rights and pro...

First Black qualified nurse in the Transvaal.

Teacher, poet, head the ANC's Department of Arts and Culture, ANC's NEC member, executive director for public and corpor...

Trade Unionist

Visual artist

MK operative killed in SA raid on Lesotho.

Teacher, lecturer, member of UDF and President of NOW, ANC politician and Deputy President of South Africa.  

Political Activist, teacher and business owner.

ANC member and a leader of Orange Free State women in the anti-pass campaign

Member of the Soweto Student Representative Council (SSRC), founder member and Secretary of the Vaal Organisation of Wom...

A suffragette and civil rights activist of the Cape Colony.

Member of the ANC and MK. She was responsible for recruiting and transporting students to Swaziland to join th...

Activist, Teacher, Director: Research coordination, Monitoring and Evaluation at Department of Basic Education. 

Jeanie Noel was born in Durban as one of twelve children, however her family was fortunate enough to own prope...

Kate O’Regan was born in Liverpool, England. She grew up in Cape Town. She obtained her B.A. from the University of Cape...

Editor of the Guardian newspaper, she was elected to the Cape Town City Council in 1943.

Member of the African National Congress Youth League, member of the Transkei Legislative Assembly,  Minister of Roads an...

Musician 

Member of the ANC, member of the executive committee of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW), defend...

Tempo started off working by looking after Henrietta Schreiner’s nephews. She soon converted to Christianity and began h...

South African artist.

First female judge to be appointed permanently to the appellate division of the South African Supreme Court.

Drama teacher.

South Africa's first female heart surgeon

Headed the African National Congress Women's League, fund raiser for the ANC, founder of the popular Zenzele self-help m...

Journalist, Politician, Member of Parliament, Premier of the Western Cape and current leader of the Democratic Alliance ...

Community activist, member of the Ratepayers’ Association of Merebank, participated in protests and demonstrations. 

Political activist, administered the 1956 Treason Trial Defence Fund and IDAF worker

School teacher and Honorary Life President of the Black Sash. 

Ceramicist

Former Miss South Africa, television personality, fashion icon, media mogul, business woman, philanthropist and wife to ...

Member of the National Executive Committee of the  Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA), Black Sash, South African ...

  Tailor, member of the Industrial Workers’ Union (ICU), took part in campaigns against passes for women in

Physician, member of the African National Congress (ANC), Vice-president of the ANC Women's League in Natal  

First president of the African National Congress Women’s League, elected to the ANC Executive Committee, National ...

Secretary General of the Sophiatown branch of the ANC, represented the ANC Women’s Section at the Women’s International ...

Full time organiser for the ANC, mobilised for the Congress of the People and the 1956 Women's March, headed the Women's...

South Africa’s first qualified veterinarian

Attorney, Member of the South African Communist Party, National General Secretary of the National Union of Distributive ...