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History of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
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- Phumzile Mlambo-NgcukaTeacher, lecturer, member of UDF and President of NOW, ANC politician and Deputy…
- Nhlumba Bertha MkhizePolitical Activist, teacher and business owner.
- Nomkhosi Mary MiniMK operative killed in SA raid on Lesotho.
- Nokugcina Elsie MhlopheSouth african freedom fighter,activist,actor,story teller,poet,playwright, director and…
- Charlotte Maxeke Activist, one of the first Black women graduates in South Africa and one of the first…
- Florence MatomelaTeacher, anti-pass activist, and civil rights campaigner. Cape provincial organiser of…
- Dorothy MasukaMusician and Singer, exiled person
- Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini (née Boto) Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini was born on the 9th of May, 1935, in the rural Bengu village…
- Emma Thandi MashininiTrade Unionist
- Bertha Gxowa (Mashaba)One of the leaders and organisers of the 1956 Women's Anti-Pass March.
- Gill MarcusMember of the African National Congress, business woman, Governor of the Reserve Bank.
- Winnie Madikizela-MandelaANC Political Activist and ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture…
- Nise Bulelwa MalangeScriptwriter, theatre director, poet, cultural worker and activist, trade unionist,…
- Cecilia MakiwaneThe first registered professional Black nurse in South Africa, early activist in the…
- Caesarina Kona MakhoereMember of Black Sash, imprisoned for attempting to undergo military training.
- Miriam MakebaSouth African singer and human rights campaigner, Makeba was the first vocalist to put…
- Elizabeth MafekengTrade unionist, National Vice-President of the ANC Women's League and member of the…
- Brigitte Sylvia MabandlaYouth co-ordinator at the Institute of Race Relations, Durban, teacher, legal advisor to…
- Jansie LourensANC operative and charged with treason
- Cythna Lindenberg LettyPainter
- Krotoa (Eva)A Khoi woman who worked as a domestic servant in the Van Riebeeck house and a translator…
- Antjie KrogJournalist and poet
- Linda KomapeTrade unionist and women’s rights activist
- Susanna Helena KokMedical doctor and surgeon who pioneered techniques of diagnosing suspected leprosy,…
- Norma KitsonMember of Congress of Democrats and British Communist Party, member of the technical unit…
- Nnoseng Ellen Kate KhuzwayoWriter, women's rights campaigner, ANC member and politician
- Baleka Mbete-KgositsileTeacher, member of SASO and the ANC, head of the Medu Arts Ensemble (Gaborone), Member of…
- Jeanette Eleanor KasrilsANC, Congress of Democrats, SACP and Umkhonto we Sizwe member, geologist
- Helen JosephTeacher, social worker, political activist, political prisoner, banned person, trade…
- Gail JohnsonGail Johnson is the foster mother of Nkosi Johnson, who died of AIDS in 2001 at the age…
- Patricia JobodwanaYoungest Black women to graduate from a South African university
- Christina JassonTrade unionist, SACTU member and 1956 Treason trialist
- Zubeida JafferJournalist
- Noni JabavuWriter and journalist
- Patricia HornTrade unionist and interntiona co-ordinator of StreetNet
- Barbara Anne HoganMember of the ANC, Political prisoner, Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister.
- Emily HobhouseBritish welfare campaigner who is primarily remembered for her work related to British…
- Ellen Phyllis HellmanSocial anthropologist, academic, member of the SAIRR and the Progressive Party
- Nadine GordimerFounding member of COSAW, South African author, script writer,member of the ANC and…
- Dr. Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo (Dr Goonam)Medical doctor, Vice President of the Natal Indian Congress and a pioneer in women's…
- Zainunnisa “Cissie” GoolLeader of the NLL and NEUF, member of the FAC, advocate and representative on the Cape…
- Ela GandhiPeace activist, Social Worker, Founder of Natal Organisation of Women, member of the NIC…
- Esther FranksFirst female Ophthamologist in South Africa
- Mary Fitzgeraldfirst woman trade unionist, first woman printer and first woman city councillor.
- Molly FischerPolitical activist, member of the South African Communist Party and the Federation of…
- Ruth FirstMember of the SACP and ANC, founder member of the South African Congress of Democrats …
- Brenda Nokuzola FassieSouth African pop singer
- Virginia EngelMember of NUSAS, SASO, UWO, co-ordinator of the SACTWU Welfare Trust and a trade unionist
- Bettie du ToitTrade unionist
- Sheena DuncanTeacher, politcal activist and leader of the women's organisation Black Sash.