Vivienne Ncakeni

One of the most outspoken members of the Transvaal African Teachers’ Association, serving on the TATA executive and on the action committee that planned the teachers’ campaign for better wages and conditions in the early 1940s.

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Bertha Mkhize

South African teacher, trade unionist, anti-apartheid and women’s rights activist, who gained legal emancipation as a feme sole operating a business in her own right.

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