South Africa
- Leader of a Political Party - Margaret Ballinger, President of the Liberal Party of South Africa - 1953
- Government minister - Rina Venter - 1989
- Health minister - Rina Venter - 1989
- Foreign minister - Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma - 1999
- Deputy President - Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka - 2005
- Mayor of Cape Town - Helen Zille - 2006
- Leader of a Major Party - Helen Zille - 2007
- Premier of Western Cape - Lynne Brown - 2008
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Famous quotes by south africa:
“I don’t have any doubts that there will be a place for progressive white people in this country in the future. I think the paranoia common among white people is very unfounded. I have always organized my life so that I could focus on political work. That’s all I want to do, and that’s all that makes me happy.”
—Hettie V., South African white anti-apartheid activist and feminist. As quoted in Lives of Courage, ch. 21, by Diana E. H. Russell (1989)