Gertrude Fester is a South African feminist, women's activist and a member of the South African parliament in 1994. She was the Commissioner of the Gender Commission. She was a student of
Harold Cressy High School
Harold Cressy High School is a secondary school in District Six of Cape Town in South Africa. It was founded in January 1951 as the Cape Town Secondary School. The school has played a substantial role in South African history during the aparthe ...
in Cape Town and later in
University of Cape Town. She completed her Doctorate from the
London School of Economics in 2008 with a thesis entitled Women and citizenship struggles: A case of the Western Cape, South Africa 1980-2004.
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South African human rights activists
Activists from Cape Town
Alumni of the London School of Economics
University of Cape Town alumni
Living people
1952 births