Wilma Newhoudt-Druchen is a South African politician who is the country's first Deaf female Member of Parliament.
[1] She attended Gallaudet University and was elected the vice-president of the World Federation of the Deaf in 2011.
[2] A member of the African National Congress, Newhoudt-Druchen has championed efforts to make South African Sign Language an official language of the country.
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