Dorothy Williams (activist)

Dorothy Adams Williams (January 1928 – April 2011) was a South African educator who fought against apartheid.

Adams was subject to a banning order and eventually left South Africa in exile; she worked with Albie Sachs in London.

[1] Her parents, Frederick and Rachel (nee Gow), were both involved in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC).

[1] In 1991, Adams and her husband moved back to South Africa where she worked for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission at the University of Western Cape.

[1][2] She and her husband moved back to Wellington in 1999 and were the "first mixed-race couple to live on the street that once marked the divide between white and non-white Wellingtonians.