Thandi Lujabe-Rankoe (born 1936) is a South African career diplomat and former anti-apartheid activist.
[1] The African National Congress (ANC) was banned by the apartheid government in 1960, and Lujabe-Rankoe followed the party into exile the following year; she was stationed at interim exile headquarters in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where her tasks included typing for ANC president Oliver Tambo.
[4] In 2009, she returned to South Africa to work at the diplomatic training academy of the Department of International Relations and Cooperation.
[3] She also acquired various business interests in South Africa,[5][6] and published two sets of memoirs, A Dream Fulfilled (about her broader career) and Two Nations, One Vision (about her time in Mozambique).
In April 2019,[7] President Cyril Ramaphosa awarded her the Order of Luthuli in Silver for:"Her excellent contribution to the fight for the liberation of the people of South Africa.