Cecilia Makiwane
South African nurse and political activist
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Virginia Engel
South African political activist
Violet Sarah Matlou
South African medical professional and political activist
Viola Hashe
South African political activist and teacher
Buchi Emecheta
Nigerian writer of novels, plays, autobiographies and children’s books
Brigalia Bam
South African Anglican women’s and social activist and writer
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.