Brigalia Bam
South African Anglican women’s and social activist and writer
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Brigitte Sylvia Mabandla
South African politician, lawyer and former anti-apartheid activist who served in the federal cabinet between 2003 to 2009
Caesarina Kona Makhoere
South African anti-apartheid activist and prison writer, known for her work No Child’s Play: In Prison Under Apartheid (1988).
Vesta Smith
South African anti-apartheid 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.
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.
Brenda Nokuzola Fassie
South African pop singer-songwriter and activist
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.