ZUBEIDA JAFFER CHARLOTTE Mannya Maxeke took the unusual step in 1902 to insist on the participation of women in church and political meetings. She had graduated with a BSc Degree in 1901 becoming the first indigenous South African women to achieve this. When she returned home from Ohio in the USA, she found herself stuck at the Cape as the country was plunged in white-on-white violence that became referred to as the Anglo-Boer War. Her plan was to travel to Ramakgopa Village to join her father and start implementing her dream of educating the local people. Nearly eight years had…