Elizabeth Maria Molteno

"After the Boer War I saw that Boer and Briton would have to unite, but would they try to do it at the cost of their dark brothers"

"One of the most influential women in South Africa during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"

"Your gift of seeing into the heart of things is so great and you have control of such exquisite language for expressing moral and spiritual aspects."

"She trained to be a teacher, refused to marry, and when she turned thirty, decided to study further at the all-female Newnham College at Cambridge"

"She rejected the Christianity of her parents and joined the philosophical and spiritualist Theosophical Society. She dressed eccentrically, favouring sandals over tight boots, and when travelling would wear two dresses at once to save the bother of having to take a suitcase"