April is commemorated as Freedom Month

 

South Africa’s Freedom Day will be celebrated on 27 April 2021. This year, the month of April is commemorated as Freedom Month under the theme “The Year of Charlotte Maxeke: the Meaning of Freedom Under COVID-19”. Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke (7 April 1871 – 16 October 1939) was a South African religious leader, social and political activist and the first black woman to graduate with a university degree in South Africa with a B.Sc from Wilberforce University Ohio in 1903, as well as the first black African woman to graduate from an American university.