Connie Mofokeng
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Connie Mofokeng (born 1959) is a Black South African woman who was an anti-apartheid activist. Mofokeng was a member of the Soweto Student Representative Council at the time of the Soweto uprising, and she was arrested along with over a hundred others[1] Mofokeng was a founding member and secretary of the Vaal Organisation of Women. In 1984, Mofokeng again marched against apartheid, and was again arrested and imprisoned. Later, she escaped and subsequently lived in exile.[2][3]
Mofokeng was born in Johannesburg.[4]