Name Ellen Kuzwayo Role Politician | Party African National Congress | |
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Books Call me woman, Sit down and listen, African wisdom Similar People John Langalibalele Dube, Sol Plaatje, Oliver Tambo, Nelson Mandela, Pixley ka Isaka Seme | ||
Audre lorde in berlin with ellen kuzwayo
Nnoseng Ellen Kate Kuzwayo (29 June 1914 – 19 April 2006) was a women's rights activist and politician in South Africa. She was president of the African National Congress Youth League in the 1960s. In 1994 she was elected to the first post-apartheid South African Parliament. Her autobiography, Call Me Woman (1985), won the CNA Prize.
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- Audre lorde in berlin with ellen kuzwayo
- The 2018 Ellen Kuzwayo Council Award recipients Ms Yasmin Sooka
- Family background
- Education
- Works
- References
The 2018 Ellen Kuzwayo Council Award recipients: Ms Yasmin Sooka
Family background
Kuzwayo came from an educated, political family. Her maternal grandfather, Jeremaiah Makgothi, was taken by his mother from the Orange Free State to the Cape to attend the Lovedale Institute, circa 1875. He qualified as a teacher and also worked as a court interpreter and a Methodist lay preacher. Makgothi was the only layman to work with Robert Moffat on the translation of the Bible into Setswana.1
Both Makgothi and Kuzwayo's father, P. S. Mefare, were political. Makgothi was secretary of the Orange Free State branch of the South African Native National Congress, Mefare a member of its successor, the African National Congress.
A South African marine research ship was named after her.
Education
Kuzwayo began her schooling at the school built by Makgothi on his farm in Thabapatchoa, about 12 miles from Tweespruit, Orange Free State. In 1937 she graduated from a higher teacher's training course at Adams College, Amanzimtoti.