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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Brenda Nokuzola Fassie
South African pop singer-songwriter and activist
Bisho Jarsa
Bisho was one of a group of Ethiopian slaves freed by a British warship in 1888 off the coast of Yemen, then taken round the African coast and placed in the care of missionaries in South Africa.
Baleka Mbete
South African politician and poet
Barbara Mosima Joyce Masekela
South African poet, educator, and activist who was the first new South African Ambassador to France and UNESCO in 1995.
Basetsana Kumalo
Basetsana Makgalemele, former Miss Soweto and Miss Black South Africa, was crowned Miss SA in 1994.
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.
Sibongile Susan Mkhabela
South African political and public health activist
Zainunnisa Gool
One of South Africa’s most popular and renowned female political leaders