Mama Beshenga
South African human rights activist
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Hilda Bernstein
British-South African author, artist, and an activist against apartheid and for women’s rights
Mary Goitsemang Ranta
South African trade unionist
Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith was a journalist and became the first woman news editor in Africa of the Sunday Times in Johannesburg in the ’60s .
Manonmoney Naidoo
Indian-South African political activist who fought for democracy, equality and justice in South Africa.
M N Bhola
South African organizer of the women’s section of the African National Congress (ANC) from the mid-1920s onward in the Western Cape, and the first woman to stand trial on the ‘hostility’ charge.
Celestine Sibley
American author, journalist, and syndicated columnist who reported for the Atlanta Constitution from 1941 to 1999.
Cindy Hyde-Smith
U.S. Senator from Mississippi
Claudine Schneider
The first woman elected from Rhode Island to the U.S. House of Representatives, Schneider earned a reputation as one of the House’s strongest environmental advocates.
Maria Elisabeth Stellwag-Bes
Considered to be the first woman to receive an engineering diploma (1904) in the Netherlands, as the first female student at TUDelft