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.

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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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