| LC control no. | n 85059299 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Kuzwayo, Ellen |
| Variant(s) | Serasengwe, Ellen Kate Serasengwe, Nnoseng Ellen Cholofolo Motlalepule |
| Associated country | South Africa |
| Birth date | 1914-06-29 |
| Death date | 2006-04-19 |
| Place of birth | Thaba Patchoa (South Africa) |
| Place of death | Johannesburg (South Africa) |
| Affiliation | Adams College (Amanzimtoti, South Africa) African National Congress. Youth League Young Women's Christian Association Urban Foundation (South Africa) South Africa. Parliament |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists Politicians |
| Found in | Her Call me woman, 1985: t.p. (Ellen Kuzwayo) jkt. (president of the Maggie Magaba Trust; lives in Soweto) LC data base, 5-29-85 (hdg.: Kuzwayo, Ellen) Her Call me woman, c1985: t.p. (Ellen Kuzwayo) p. xvii (b. Ellen Kate Serasengwe, 6-29-14) African wisdom, c1998: t.p. (Ellen K. Kuzwayo) p. 1 (b. 29 June 1914) Washington post WWW site, Apr. 20, 2006 (Ellen Kuzwayo; d. Apr. 19, aged 91; South African author; women's rights and anti-apartheid champion) New York times WWW site, Apr. 24, 2006 (in obituary published Apr. 22: Ellen Kuzwayo; b. Nnoseng Ellen Serasengwe, June 29, 1914, Orange Free State; d. Wednesday [Apr. 19, 2006], Johannesburg, aged 91; the lone woman and the least flashy of the founders of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and a quiet moral force throughout the rise of the African National Congress from outlaw movement to governing party) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed February 18, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Kuzwayo, Ellen; Nnoseng Ellen Kate Serasengwe; Cholofolo (Setswana for "hope"); Motlalepule (Setswana for "the one who arrives on a rainy day"); fiction writer, antiapartheid activist; born 29 June, 1914 in Thaba Patchoa, South Africa; trained for being a teacher at the American Congregationalist institution Adams College and Lovedale; qualified as social worker, Jan Hofmeyr School of Social Work, Johannesburg (1955); joined National Council of African Women (NCAW) (1937); was elected secretary of Thaba Nchu branch of NCAW (1938); joined the ANC Youth League, headed by Nelson Mandela; organized youth recreation activities, Southern African Association of Youth Clubs (1956-1963); was general secretary for the Transvaal, Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) (1964-1976); founding member of the Urban Foundation (1976); was elected member of Parliament for the ANC in South Africa's first democratic elections (1994-1999); was awarded honorary degree in literature from University of the Witwatersrand for autobiography Call Me Woman (1987); died 19 April, 2006 in Johannesburg, South Africa) |
| Invalid LCCN | n 99025116 |
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