History of Women’s struggle in South Africa

Musician

ANC Political Activist and ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture, President of ANCWL, member of...

Parliamentarian, Human Rights Activist, sole representative of opposition party (the Progressive Party) in parliament du...

Anti-Apartheid activist and trade unionist

Teacher, lawyer, university lecturer, author, member of the NEUM, NIC, SACP, ANC and MK, Recipient of the Order Of Luthu...

Journalist, editor, lecturer, lawyer, radio programme producer, member of the ANC, politician and former speaker of the ...

ANC, Congress of Democrats, SACP and Umkhonto we Sizwe member, geologist

Member of the Communist Party in Cape Town and after her marriage became a member of the Natal India...

Organiser of the African National Congress (ANC) Women’s League and Trade Unionist.

Artist

Secretary of the South African Communist Party and Trade Union stalwart, General Secretary of the Food and Canning Worke...

An active trade unionist and member of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), she received military training in Angola and the Soviet U...

Member of Congress of Democrats and British Communist Party, member of the technical unit of the South African Communist...

Teacher, social worker, political activist, political prisoner, banned person, trade unionist, founder member of the Con...

Executive member of the Textile Workers Union in Port Elizabeth, founder member of the South African Congress of Tr...

Educationist, lecturer, Deputy Chief Whip of the ANC and former Minister of Education.

Member of the African National Congress (ANC) and the SACP, secretary of the Human Rights Committee, member of the Johan...

Nurse, chairperson of the George Goch branch of the ANCYL, founder member of the Afro-Asian Solidarity Movement and the ...

Teacher, author and journalist

Political activist, member of the TIYC and TIC, treasurer of FEDSAW, patron of the Federation of Transvaal Women, arrest...

Member of the South African Labour Party League of Youth and the South African Communist Party, founding member of the F...

Member of the SACP and ANC, founder member of the South African Congress of Democrats (COD) and Author.

Activist, one of the first Black women graduates in South Africa and one of the first Black South Africans to fight for ...

South African singer and human rights campaigner, Makeba was the first vocalist to put African music onto the internatio...

General Secretary of the Garment Workers’ Industrial Union (GWIU), Secretary of the Furniture Workers` Industrial Union ...

Youth co-ordinator at the Institute of Race Relations, Durban, teacher, legal advisor to the ANC Legal and Constitutiona...

Founding member of COSAW, South African author, script writer,member of the ANC and winner of the Nobel Prize for Litera...

Leader of the NLL and NEUF, member of the FAC, advocate and representative on the Cape Town City Council.

South African pop singer

Albertina Sisulu 'the mother of the nation', activist and nurse, who has struggled for her whole life human rights and d...

Journalist and poet

Poet

Member of Parliament, South African ambassador and mayor

Writer and journalist