Winifred "Freda" May Levson (born MacDonald Troup 21 November 1911 - 7 October 2004) was a South African activist.
[1] During World War II, she volunteered on a ship that took evacuee children to South Africa and afterwards, she stayed there with her family.
[1] Levson felt that the plight of Hereros people in Namibia was a "test case" for racial segregation.
[1] In 1963, she started a boycott movement called Playwrights Against Apartheid which encouraged writers to "withdraw rights to have their works performed in racially segregated theatres in South Africa.
"[9] Samuel Beckett was involved and Waiting for Godot was not performed again in South Africa until 1976 when it starred an all-black cast as Market Theatre, Johannesburg.