Their leaders included Mrs Molisapoli, whose first name is not recorded and Mrs Katie Louw. The war that started in Winburg The story of the women of 1913 is inseparable from Plaatje. Decades before 1956, Free State women were being told that impris- onment for freedom was an honour. The women of 1913 were largely Setswana- and Sesotho-speaking women from small Free State towns. The 1913 women won only a partial, tempo- rary victory.