Nnoseng Ellen Kate Kuzwayo (29 June 1914 – 19 April 2006) was a South African women's rights activist and politician, who was a teacher from 1938 to 1952.

Born Nnoseng Ellen Serasengwe,[1] in Thaba 'Nchu, Orange Free State,[2] Kuzwayo came from an educated, politically active family.

[4] She married Ernest Moloto when in her late twenties, and the couple had two sons, but the marriage was not a happy one, and after suffering abuse from her husband she fled to Johannesburg.

[1] Her other community activism included serving as the president of the Black Consumer Union of South Africa and the Maggie Magaba Trust.

[9] On the 1985 publication of her autobiography, Call Me Woman, in which she described being beaten by her husband, Kuzwayo became the first black writer to win South Africa's leading literary prize, the CNA Award.

[2] With director Betty Wolpert, Kuzwayo was involved in making the documentary films Awake from Mourning (1982) and Tsiamelo –– A Place of Goodness (1983),[10][11][6] which drew on the story of the dispossession of her family's farmland.