Tag: Dorothy Nyembe

• Dorothy Nyembe

  May 17, 2017

  Durban Street Names

  Activist, Apartheid, Dorothy Nyembe, Durban, eThekwini, History, South Africa, Street Names, struggle, women

  Today I am profiling Dorothy Nyembe, formerly Gardiner Street. This woman was a force to be reckoned with!   Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe, known as “Mam D”, was born on 31 December 1931, near Dundee in northern KwaZulu-Natal, and she died in Umlazi on 17 December 1998. Dorothy attended mission schools until grade 11, and at the…