Ellen Kate Kuzwayo

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Dr Ellen Kate Kuzwayo (1914-2006). Teacher, community worker, actress and author.

Biography

General secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association for 12 years. Member of the Soweto Committee of Ten, president of the Black Consumer's Union (1984), member of the Urban Foundation Committee and author of Call Me Woman, for which she won the CNA Literary Award.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

(This was dramatised by ** in 19**??). In 1983 she acted in the film Tsiamelo - A Place of Goodness.

Sources

Tribute written by Steven Motale, published inThe Citizen, 20 April 2006.

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