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TAYO Fatunla, Cartoonist, Designer; Illustrator, Caricaturist, Storyteller, Cartoon Tutor, Visual Communicator and Motivational speaker is a member of the National Cartoonists Society and CartoonArts International/New York Times Syndicate both U.S.…>

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Lillian Masediba Ngoyi "Ma Ngoyi", (25 September 1911 – 13 March 1980), was a South African anti-apartheid activist.

She was the first woman elected to the executive committee of the African National Congress, and helped launch the Federation of South African Women. Ngoyi joined the ANC Women's League in 1952; she was at that stage a widow with two children and an elderly mother to support, and worked as a seamstress.

A year later she was elected as President of the Women's League. On 9 August 1956, Ngoyi led a march along with Helen Joseph, Rahima Moosa, Sophia Williams-De Bruyn, Bertha Gxowa and Albertina Sisulu of 20,000 women to the Union Buildings of Pretoria in protest against the apartheid government requiring women to carry passbooks as part of the pass laws.