Madie Hall Xuma

Madie Hall Xuma (sometimes given as Hall-Xuma) (1894–1982) was an American activist in South Africa.

Born Madie Beatrice Hall in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Xuma was the daughter of H. H. Hall, the first black doctor in the city, and his wife Ginny Cowan Hall. She was studying for a master's degree in education at Columbia University when she met the widowed Alfred Bitini Xuma, visiting the United States at the time; she went on to study social work at Atlanta University. She and Xuma married in Cape Town in 1940, and she went on to play an important role in the development of women's organizations in South Africa. She was the first president of the African National Congress Women's League, serving from 1943 to 1948, and assisted in the foundation of the Zenzele clubs for women's enrichment, whose design she took from American clubs for black women. She was also involved with the Young Women's Christian Association. In 1963, following her husband's death, she returned to Winston-Salem, living quietly apart from an around-the-world trip in 1966 and remaining active with local women's clubs. The Zenzele administration building bears her name.