Died: 16 September 2004
Dolly Rathebe, OIS was a South African singer who became Africa's first acknowledged international female actor when she starred in the 1949 British-produced movie, Jim Comes To Jo'burg. It was the first film to portray urban Africans in a positive light. She went on to be lead singer for popular township bands [a=The Harlem Swingsters] and [a=The African Inkspots] and later in [a=Gibson Kente]'s Sikalo and The Elite Swingsters.