Businesswoman and prominent social activist Mamphela Ramphele was this week awarded the highest honour that the Anglican Church of Southern Africa can bestow upon its lay members.
Archbishop Thabo Makgoba admitted Ramphele to the order of Simon of Cyrene at a church provincial synod in Benoni.
In a statement the church said that she was “one of the greatest prophetic voices.”
She had acted “with fierce determination” in the fight against apartheid, and still worked actively against injustice for the rights of women, the poor and marginalized.