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'''Radha Poonoosamy''' ([[Tamil language|Tamil]]: ராதா பொன்னுசாமி படையாச்சி) (née Padayachee, 18 September 1924 – January 2008), was a [[Mauritius|Mauritian politician]], the country's first female cabinet minister, and a feminist activist.

She was born Radha Padayachee on 18 September 1924 in [[Durban]], South Africa.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195382075.001.0001/acref-9780195382075-e-1694|title=Poonoosamy, Radha - Oxford Reference|website=oxfordreference.com|year=2012|access-date=5 November 2017|doi=10.1093/acref/9780195382075.001.0001|isbn=9780195382075|editor1-last=Akyeampong|editor1-first=Emmanuel K|editor2-first=Henry Louis|editor2-last=Gates}}</ref> She was born into a family of Indian ancestry.<ref name="Dictionary of African Biography">{{cite book|author1=Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.|author2=Professor Emmanuel Akyeampong|author3=Mr. Steven J. Niven|title=Dictionary of African Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=39JMAgAAQBAJ&pg=RA4-PA118|access-date=5 November 2017|date=2 February 2012|publisher=OUP USA|isbn=978-0-19-538207-5|page=4}}</ref>

She was educated at the [[University of Natal]], where she was an "outspoken opponent of apartheid", and became a member of the Student Council of the [[Indian National Congress]], which fought against anti-Indian discrimination in South Africa.<ref name="Dictionary of African Biography"/> She went on to become head of the women's section, and also a member of the executive committee of the [[African National Congress]] (ANC).<ref name="Dictionary of African Biography"/>

She married the physician Dr. Valaydon Poonoosamy, and they settled in [[Mauritius]] in 1952. She became a naturalized citizen, and continued her activism there within Mauritius's [[Labour Party (Mauritius)|Labour Party]].<ref name="Dictionary of African Biography"/>

In 1975, Poonoosamy was elected a Member of Parliament, becoming the country's first female minister, the inaugural minister in charge of the Ministry of Women's Affairs, and helped pass laws against sex discrimination.<ref name="Dictionary of African Biography"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://mauritiustimes.com/mt/sarita-boodhoo-76/|title=A Liberation Week: Women on the Move|date=15 March 2016|website=mauritiustimes.com|access-date=5 November 2017}}</ref>

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