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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Vera Ponnen
English-South African communist activist
Bertha Gxowa
South African anti-apartheid, labor rights and women’s rights activist
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.
Yetta Barenblatt
Irish-South African political and labor rights activist
Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe
South African health practitioner and activist
Zubeida Jaffer
Zubeida Jaffer is a journalist who was active in the South African anti-apartheid and the trade union movements.
Ninfa Tanguma
Ninfa Tanguma and her daughter Yolanda Alaníz, provided determined leadership for Latinas in their transition from rural to urban areas. In 1970 Tanguma took her turn at picket duty in a hop-ranch strike in Yakima.
Anna Helfgott
Anna Helfgott was a vigorous activist for progressive causes and a leader in Seattle’s Gray Panthers. In her working years she was a dressmaker and fitter, and was an early member of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU).
Catherine Mahon
President of the Irish National Teachers Organisation