Gisèle Rabesahala

Malagasy politician and activist Gisèle Rabesahala was the first woman to hold a ministerial position in Madagascar’s federal government in 1977, as well as the country’s first woman municipal councilor and the first Malagasy woman to establish and lead a political party.

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Nosipho Dorothy Ntwanambi

South African activist who was Deputy President of the African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) and an African National Congress (ANC) National Executive Committee member.

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Nontsizi Mgqwetho

Virtually nothing is known about the life of the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa, apart from what is revealed in her writings, almost all of which appeared in the Johannesburg newspaper Umteleli wa Bantu between 1920 and 1929.

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