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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Barbara Mosima Joyce Masekela
South African poet, educator, and activist who was the first new South African Ambassador to France and UNESCO in 1995.
Emma Brown Malone
Emma Brown Malone founded a school to train women ministers in Cleveland
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.
Helen Bailey
Dora Helen M. (Helen) Bailey was instrumental in establishing the block system of nurse training at Fremantle Hospital.
Anna Johanna Dorothea De Villiers
South African linguist, writer, and educator
Zubeida Jaffer
Zubeida Jaffer is a journalist who was active in the South African anti-apartheid and the trade union movements.
Gwen Burbidge
Australian matron, teacher, reformer, activist and advocate for nurses and nursing
Maude Eliza Kimball Butler
American educator
Guadalupe Curiel Defossé
Mexican researcher, professor, and historian.