Hendrika Cornelia Scott (Henda) Swart FRSSAf (born 1939, died February 2016 [age 77-78])[1] was a South African mathematician, a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a professor at the University of Cape Town[2][3] Born Hendrika Cornelia Scott, she married John Henry Swart.
[3] She was the first person to earn a doctorate in mathematics from Stellenbosch University,[3] in 1971, with a dissertation on the geometry of projective planes supervised by Kurt-Rüdiger Kannenberg.
[5] In 1977, her research interests shifted from geometry to graph theory, which she continued to publish in for the rest of her career.
[3] She was the editor-in-chief of the journal Utilitas Mathematica,[2][3][6] and was vice president of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications.
[2] Swart was a part-time lecturer at the University of Cape town from 2014 until her death.