Ellen Kuzwayo

Overview

Ellen Kuzwayo born Thaba 'Nchu, South Africa June 29, 1914 (d. 2006). South African leader and social worker; Head of ANC Youth League; only woman on Soweto Committee of Ten, for which she was arrested for five months 1977.

Quotations

"If you can rise, bring someone with you." (Call Me Woman, pp. 102-3, 1985; photo Johannesburg Univ.)