Zainunnisa "Cissie" Gool (6 November 1897 – 1 July 1963) was an anti-apartheid political and civil rights leader in South Africa.
Gool founded the National Liberation League and helped to create the Non-European United Front (NEUF).
Gool and her sister, Rosie, attended the Trafalgar High School in District Six in Cape Town[3] which had been founded by her father, an advocate of equality in public education.
In 1949, she was elected chairperson of the city council's health committee,[2] the first black woman in the country to serve in local government.
[5] Known as the "Jewel of District Six" she represented the people of that constituency in the council until her death in 1963, despite having been named as a Communist under the Suppression of Communism Act.