Regina Gelana Twala (1908–1968) was a feminist activist, writer, teacher, researcher, evangelist, and liberation leader in South Africa and eSwatini.
[1] Twala graduated from Indaleni Girl's High School in 1924, where, despite the confines of mission education for women at the time, she excelled academically.
While working as teacher in the early 1930s, Twala wrote a regular column for the popular Black daily newspaper Bantu World under the pseudonym Mademoiselle.
"[1] In 1935, she began to write a similar column for the newspaper Umteteli wa Bantu under the pen name Sister Kollie.
[6] As a writer, Twala contributed newspaper columns to several publications in Swaziland, including Umteteli Wa Bantu and Izwi lama Swazi.
[6][11][12] She was a candidate for Swaziland's first Legislative Council in the 1964 Swazi general election, running as an independent in the Manzini constituency.
[11][15] In addition, Twala was a pioneer of Pentecostal worship in the region, an active member of the evangelical Christian movement.