[1] Margaret Hodgson was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1894 and moved to Cape Colony with her family when she was a child.

She had stood against other male candidates and talking through an interpreter had managed to win the electorate's confidence.

She was credited, along with Senator Edgar Brookes, for moving people from talking about controlling the native South African populace to finding out how their lives could be improved.

[3] In 1943 she was proposing new laws and in 1947 her plans included new training and municipal representation for "blacks" and improved consultation with the NRC.

The future that the article foresaw for Ballinger was as the "white hope" leading 24,000,000 blacks as part of an expanded British influence in southern Africa.

They had both formed a Friends of Africa movement, but this looked more to Britain for funding than it did in its success in linking to the emerging African native political organisations.