Politics Archives - Page 19 of 130

Eileen O’Faolain

Irish political activist and children’s book author

Nomvula Mokonyane

South African politician

Paula Ensor

South African anti-apartheid activist and Dean of the Humanities Faculty at the University of Cape Town

Pauline Podbrey

South African Communist activist

Nomkhosi Mary Mini

South African activist killed in the maseru Massacre in 1982

Bavelile Gloria Hlongwa

South African chemical engineer and politician

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.