Women

Member of the ANC and MK, political detainee

Member of the NEUM and TLSA, Editor of the Educational Journal, teacher political activist, political detainee, member o...

Arrested and detained for political activities

Member of the African National Congress, member of the Executive Committee of the Black People’s Convention, founding me...

Nurse, lecturer, consultant in development studies, National President of the YWCA of South Africa, Regional Director of...

journalist, news editor, political prisoner

A member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA) and the Black Sash, political prisoner, worked at Defence and Aid, ...

political activist, member of the South African Communist Party, lecturer, author, gender activist, played a key part i...

Women’s rights activist, anti-apartheid activist, member of the ANCYL, ANCWL, FEDSAW, and AAPSO, founding member of the ...

Participated in the Indian miners’ strike of 1913, political prisoner. 

Member of the African National Congress (ANC) armed wing uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) and the Ashley Kriel Detachment, Cape You...

Anti-apartheid activist, COD and ANC member, journalist, launched the ANC women section’s first bulletin- Voice of Women...

Trade unionist, National Vice-President of the ANC Women's League and member of the National Executive Committe...

First African woman member of the Communist Party of South Africa in Langa, member of the African National Congress Wome...

  A young girl who joined other women on a march to inform others of the passive resista

Olive Schreiner’s elder sister, founder of “The Highlands” home, member of Women’s Temperance Union

Mary Matilda Brown was born in Sea Point, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa on 20 July 1847. She advocated for socia...

Teacher and farmer, wife of Chief Albert John Luthuli, community leader, involved in the ANC and Daughters of Africa.

A Khoikhoi woman

Anti-apartheid activist, feminist, member of SASO, the BCM, the BPC, and AZAPO, banned for three years

Teacher.

Wilman studied botany at the University of Cambridge, which she completed in 1888 when she received a certificate. It wa...

Co-founder of the Angola Comite (AC) in the Netherlands to support the freedom struggle in Angola and Southern Africa.

Historian and lecturer

A mother, rape survivor, journalist/writer who became well-known, at the age of 17 when she reported on the 1976 Soweto ...

Founder member and first president of the Black Sash in 1955, led the organization until 1975, recipient of the Governme...

MK Gandhi’s South African Secretary

Architect

President of the Grahamstown branch of the South African Association of University Women

Musician

First Black matron for the Natal Provincial Administration

History is not kind to Nongqawuse. What we know of her is mainly related to the Cattle-Killing/Millenarian Movement o...

Xhosa poet

South african freedom fighter,activist,actor,story teller,poet,playwright, director and author

General secretary of the Chemical and Industrial Workers’ Union, Adult Basic Education trainer

Singer

Member of Black Sash, imprisoned for attempting to undergo military training.

A Khoi woman who worked as a domestic servant in the Van Riebeeck house and a translator for the Dutch authorities. Her ...

Trade unionist and women’s rights activist

Gail Johnson is the foster mother of Nkosi Johnson, who died of AIDS in 2001 at the age of 12. Nkosi first came into the...