# Brigalia Bam > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Brigalia_Bam > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Brigalia_Bam.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigalia_Bam > Source revision: 1252565141 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|South African women's activist (born 1933)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Use South African English|date=October 2013}} {{Infobox person | name = Brigalia Bam | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Brigalia Ntombemhlope Bam | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1933}} | birth_place = [Transkei](/source/Transkei), [Eastern Cape](/source/Eastern_Cape), South Africa | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | other_names = | alma_mater = [University of Chicago](/source/University_of_Chicago) | occupation = Social activist and writer. | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Brigalia Ntombemhlope Bam''' (born 1933) is an [Anglican](/source/Anglican) women's and social activist and writer. ==Personal life== Brigalia Ntombemhlope Bam was born in 1933 in the former [Transkei](/source/Transkei), in the [Eastern Cape](/source/Eastern_Cape). Although Bam trained and worked as a teacher, she received further training in South Africa and abroad in the fields of social work, communication, and management. She is a qualified social worker with a post-graduate degree from the [University of Chicago](/source/University_of_Chicago).{{Cite web|url=http://www.thepresidency.gov.za/pebble.asp?relid=7559|title=The Order of the Baobab in Silver|accessdate=2013-09-28|publisher=The Presidency, Republic of South Africa|year=2009|author=Anon|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019045045/http://www.thepresidency.gov.za/pebble.asp?relid=7559|archivedate=19 October 2013}} ==Professional life== Bam has held various posts throughout the world. She was the Africa Regional Secretary and Co-ordinator of the Women’s Workers' Programme for the [International Food and Allied Workers Association](/source/International_Union_of_Food%2C_Agricultural%2C_Hotel%2C_Restaurant%2C_Catering%2C_Tobacco%2C_and_Allied_Workers'_Association) based in [Geneva](/source/Geneva). She has co-ordinated the World [Young Men’s Christian Association](/source/Young_Men%E2%80%99s_Christian_Association)'s International Training Institute and Programme, as well as its affiliate, the Development for Human Rights. She was also Executive Programme Secretary for the Women’s Department of the [World Council of Churches](/source/World_Council_of_Churches). Between 1997 and 1998, Bam served as General Secretary of the [South African Council of Churches](/source/South_African_Council_of_Churches) from 1994 to 1999. In South Africa, she was a founding member of the Women’s Development Foundation and became the Foundation’s President in 1998. She has been a board member of the Matla Trust as well as the [South African Broadcasting Corporation](/source/South_African_Broadcasting_Corporation). Since 1999, Brigalia Bam has become a familiar personality to South Africans as the Chairperson of the [Independent Electoral Commission](/source/Independent_Electoral_Commission_of_South_Africa) of South Africa. From 2007, she was on the [Panel of the Wise](/source/Panel_of_the_Wise).{{Cite web|url=http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/where/acp/regional-cooperation/peace/capacity_building/panel_of_the_wise_en.htm|title=Panel of the Wise|accessdate=2013-09-28|publisher=The European Commission|year=2012|author=Anon|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140722142610/http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/where/acp/regional-cooperation/peace/capacity_building/panel_of_the_wise_en.htm|archive-date=22 July 2014|url-status=dead}} She is the [chancellor](/source/Chancellor_(education)) of the [Walter Sisulu University](/source/Walter_Sisulu_University).{{Cite web|url=http://www.wsu.ac.za/about_us/aboutus.php?id=leadership|title=THE CHANCELLOR|accessdate=2013-09-28|publisher=Walter Sisulu University|year=2013|author=Anon|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002033810/http://www.wsu.ac.za/about_us/aboutus.php?id=leadership|archive-date=2 October 2013|url-status=dead}} She is currently a member of the International Elections Advisory Council. ==Awards== * In 1999 the [Order of Simon of Cyrene](/source/Order_of_Simon_of_Cyrene){{citation needed|date=September 2013}} * The [Order of the Baobab](/source/Order_of_the_Baobab) in Silver * In 2000 The SAWW Award{{Cite web|url=http://pages.interlog.com/~saww/awards2000.html|title=4th Annual SAWW Awards|accessdate=2013-09-28|publisher=SAWW|year=2000|author=Anon}} *The 2011 Shoprite Checkers Women of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award{{Cite web|title=Shoprite Holdings {{!}} Women of the Year 2011 winners announced!|url=https://www.shopriteholdings.co.za/articles/Newsroom/2011/women-of-the-year-2011-winners-announced-.html|access-date=2021-01-03|website=www.shopriteholdings.co.za}} * Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace and Reconciliation 2013{{Cite web|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-08-27/news/41499270_1_gandhi-peace-award-durban-city-hall-satyagraha|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901003242/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-08-27/news/41499270_1_gandhi-peace-award-durban-city-hall-satyagraha|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 September 2013|title=South Africa's former election head receives Gandhi Peace Award|accessdate=2013-10-11|publisher=Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.|year=2013|author=Anon|work=The Economic Times}} *Honorary Doctorate in Literature, March 2019, University of the Witwatersrand{{Cite web|url=https://www.wits.ac.za/news/latest-news/graduations/2019/writers-poets-and-activists-to-be-honoured-by-wits.html|title=2019 - Writers, poets and activists to be honoured by Wits - Wits University}} ==Publications== *1971: ''What is Ordination Coming To?''{{cite book|author=Brigalia Bam|title=What is Ordination Coming To? Report of a Consultation on the Ordination of Women Held in Cartigny, Geneva, Switzerland 21st-26th September, 1970. Ed. by Brigalia Bam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rVVUtwAACAAJ|year=1971}} *1979: ''New Perspectives for Third World Women''{{cite book|author1=Brigalia H. Bam|author2=Lotika Sarkar|title=New Perspectives for Third World Women|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sSQtAAAAIAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society}} *1994: ''Women Voices Worldwide''{{cite book|author=Brigalia Bam|title=Women Voices Worldwide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uuRrPgAACAAJ|year=1994|publisher=IDOC internazionale}} *1998: ''All about Eve: women of Africa'' in Anglicanism: A Global Communion{{cite book|author1=Andrew Wingate|author2=Carrie Pemberton|title=Anglicanism: A Global Communion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NVwxJh33ptQC&pg=PA347|year=1998|publisher=Church Publishing, Inc.|isbn=978-0-89869-304-1|page=347}} *1986: ''Priorities for Women in South Africa'' in Speaking of faith: cross-cultural perspectives on women, religion and social change{{cite book|author1=Diana L. Eck|author2=Devaki Jain|title=Speaking of faith: cross-cultural perspectives on women, religion and social change|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jx0pAAAAYAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Women's Press|isbn=9780704340169}} ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bam, Brigalia}} Category:1933 births Category:Living people Category:20th-century non-fiction writers Category:20th-century South African women writers Category:20th-century South African writers Category:People from the Eastern Cape Category:Recipients of the Order of the Baobab Category:South African religious writers Category:University of Chicago alumni Category:YMCA leaders --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Brigalia Bam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigalia_Bam) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigalia_Bam?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). 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