Florence Mophosho

[1] She became involved in organising the ANC's next major campaign, the 1955 Congress of the People; she travelled Alexandra soliciting residents' proposals for the Freedom Charter.

[2] After the ANC was outlawed in 1960, Mophosho continued to work for the organisation underground, though she was arrested on several occasions and served with a banning order in 1964.

[2][1] Shortly afterwards, she wrote to her friend Ray Alexander, "I intend going back to Africa towards the end of the year, I feel I have done my bit some body else should come [to Berlin] and represent you people.

[3] Over the next decade, Mophosho travelled extensively to represent the ANC abroad, including at the All-Africa Women's Conference of 1972, and she received military training in Lusaka in 1978.

[2] She was intermittently ill in the early 1980s – she was treated for an ulcer in the Soviet Union – and died in Morogoro on 9 August 1985, the 29th anniversary of the Women's March.

[7] In April 2007, she was awarded the Order of Luthuli by Thabo Mbeki, the second post-apartheid president,[8] for:Her excellent contribution to the anti-apartheid struggle, braving police harassment to mobilise society for a just and democratic South Africa, and striving for gender equality.