Dorothy Nyembe

[1] Nyembe spent much of her life under apartheid either under banning orders or in prison,[2] serving terms from 1963 to 1966 for furthering the ANC movement.

[2] In 1961, Nyembe was recruited into the Umkhonto we Sizwe and worked with a number of allies such as Chief Albert Luthuli, Moses Mabhida, Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Oliver Tambo.

Fighting against rent increases, transport costs, poor education and lack of child care facilities are the main focus of the organization.

Nyembe, while not a pacifist, joined the ANC and in 1952 was willing to break laws that imposed restrictions of political, labour and residential rights.

[9] Nyembe's time in the defiance campaign ended when, in 1953, the British passed laws that banned protest meetings.

After her election president of the Natal division in 1959 Nyembe was involved in the planning of opposition to pass laws.

Pass laws would have made it required that all black citizens carry an identity card around in white areas.

During her career she received the Order of Friendship of Peoples, from the Soviet Union, and the Chief Albert Luthuli prize, the latter in 1992.