Ottilie Abrahams

Ottilie Grete Abrahams (2 September 1937 – 2 July 2018) was a Namibian educator, activist, and politician.

"[3] Abrahams became politically active while studying in high school and university in Cape Town, South Africa; she joined the South West Africa Student Body in 1952 and later became active in the Cape Peninsula Students Union and the Non-European Unity Movement.

She and other activists formed the Yu Chi Chan Club, a secret Maoist organization.

In 1985, Abrahams founded the Jacob Marengo Tutorial College in Katutura, of which she was still the principal until her death.

They lived in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Lusaka, Zambia and for nine years in Stockholm, Sweden.