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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Albertina Sisulu

1918 - 2011

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Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu OMSG (née Thethiwe; 21 October 1918 – 2 June 2011) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, and the wife of fellow activist Walter Sisulu (1912–2003). She was affectionately known as "Ma Sisulu" throughout her lifetime by the South African public. In 2004 she was voted 57th in the SABC3's Great South Africans. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albertina Sisulu has received more than 443,630 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Albertina Sisulu is the 531st most popular social activist (down from 461st in 2019), the 179th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 162nd in 2019) and the 10th most popular South African Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Albertina Sisulu ranks 531 out of 538Before her are Bayard Rustin, Harry Hay, Mario Savio, Ales Bialiatski, Elizaveta Glinka, and Jared Taylor. After her are Roger Stone, Chen Guangcheng, William Smith O'Brien, Oinikhol Bobonazarova, Ingrid Newkirk, and Frank Kameny.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Albertina Sisulu ranks 271Before her are Virginia Davis, Richard Greene, Avery Dulles, Evelyn Ankers, Dave Bartholomew, and Ben Klassen. After her are Helen Wagner, Eddy Arnold, Peter Poreku Dery, Adolph Kiefer, Marian McPartland, and Fedor Samokhin. Among people deceased in 2011, Albertina Sisulu ranks 400Before her are Gordon Tootoosis, Brian Jacques, Taiji, Andrija Fuderer, Ragnar Lundberg, and Khamis Gaddafi. After her are Mike Starr, Frank Kameny, Chris Lawrence, Knut Steen, Aloysius Ambrozic, and Laura Ziskin.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Albertina Sisulu ranks 179 out of 374Before her are Joan Harrison (1935), Doug Serrurier (1920), Wendy Beckett (1930), Austin Stevens (1950), Mike Melvill (1940), and David Benatar (1966). After her are Govan Mbeki (1910), Richard Goldstone (1938), Benni McCarthy (1977), Desiré Wilson (1953), Lawrence Stevens (1913), and Clarence Walker (1898).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In South Africa

Among social activists born in South Africa, Albertina Sisulu ranks 10Before her are Frances Ames (1920), Devdas Gandhi (1900), Denis Goldberg (1933), Ted Grant (1913), Beyers Naudé (1915), and Bram Fischer (1908). After her are Kumi Naidoo (1965), Nkosi Johnson (1989), and Ayakha Melithafa (2002).