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Date: 1977 Type: Statue Status: Extant   Click to view large map Coordinates: 32°46'29.25" S 26°50'47.55" E Alt: 545m

See more photographs Cecilia Makiwane (1880–1919) was the first African registered professional nurse in what would become South Africa and an early activist in the struggle for women's rights. Cecilia Makiwane was born in 1880 at the MacFarlane Mission in Victoria East, a district about 10 km away from Alice in what was the Cape Colony. Her father was Reverend Elijah Makiwane, a pioneering clergyman and the second Black minister ordained in the Presbyterian Church, who was trained in South Africa.[2] Her mother Maggie Majiza was an assistant teacher at a girls' school in Alice. Maggie died in 1883 when Cecilia was two years old.[1] Her parents had three children: Daisy (born 1878), Cecilia (born 1880) and Ashton (born 1882). Cecilia attended the Lovedale Girls' School where she obtained a teacher's certificate. (Wikipedia) Transcription of Granite plinth: NGOWESE-8 KWEYOMQUNGU, 1908 UCECILIA MAKIWANE WABA NGUMONGKAZI WOKUQALA ONTSUNDU OBHALISIWEYO WAKWARHLUMENTE eAFRIKA. ELI LITYE LESIKHUMBUZO LAKHIWE NGUMBUTHO WABONGIKAZI BOMZANTSI AFRIKA UKUKHUMBULA OKO AKUFEZILEYO. ON 8 JANUARY 1908 CECILIA MAKIWANE BECAME THE FIRST STATE REGISTERED BLACK PROFESSIONAL NURSE IN AFRICA. THIS STATUE HAS BEEN ERECTED BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN NURSING ASSOCIATION TO COMMEMORATE HER ACHIEVEMENT. UMHLA LIKROLWE NCU 1977. 5. 7. JACK PENN F.R.C.S. DATE SCULPTED BY