South Africa: Lilian Ngoyi - an Heroic South African Woman Whose Story Hasn't Been Fully Told

[The Conversation Africa] Despite her key role in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, details about Lilian Ngoyi's life remain sparse. The short paragraphs on her legacy repeat a few well-worn phrases. South Africa's "mother of the black resistance", a widow and rumoured lover of Nelson Mandela, and the first woman member of the national executive committee - the core leadership of the African National Congress (ANC), the resistance movement that would later become the government of a democratic South Africa. She was al