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Elizabeth Khaxas

Namibian feminist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ42661846 ↗
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Elizabeth Khaxas (born 1960) is a Namibian writer and activist.

Khaxas ran Sister Namibia from 1998 to 2004. After leaving Sister Namibia, she founded the Women's Leadership Centre.

Khaxas and her partner were also part of the Frank and Khaxas v Chairperson of the Immigration Selection Board court case in Namibia, which tried to obtain legal recognition of same-sex relationships in Namibia.

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Further reading

"Elizabeth Khaxas: to love another woman. (Namibian lesbian activist)". Connexions (n47): 35 (2). 1995-01-01.

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This entry incorporates text from “Elizabeth Khaxas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.