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.
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