South Africa: Final chapter for rights champion Kuzwayo

Life-long champion of women’s rights Nnoseng Ellen Kate Kuzwayo died in Soweto in the early hours of yesterday, after a long illness. She was 91. Her son, Bobo, said Kuzwayo – until June, 1999, South Africa’s longest-serving parliamentarian – died at 2.30am in the Lesedi Private Clinic, to which she was admitted three weeks ago for diabetes- related complications. Kuzwayo was born on a farm in the Thaba Nchu district of the Free State on June 29, 1914, and is best known for her book, Call Me Woman, published in 1986 and winner of the CNA Book Prize.