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This year the South African government set about honouring Charlotte Mannya Maxeke, one of the country’s most remarkable women who was born 150 years ago. It is said she was only the “second woman to be memorialised and honoured in this way since 2018 when (anti-apartheid) struggle icon Alb.
To separate Maxeke from inconvenient narratives is to shortchange her story; participating wholly in the time-old tradition of making women scatter cushions in rooms where decisions are made