The public perception of leadership in South Africa does not often include an appreciation of the role of women traditional leaders in communities. This booklet promotes the recognition of women traditional leaders and their work in resolving conflict and building peace. It emerges from the Centre for Mediation in Africa’s engagements and collaborative work with women traditional leaders across the country, ranging from Queens of the respective kingdoms to traditional leaders of rural communities. Our goal is to assist readers of this text to have a sense of the day-to-day work of women traditional leaders and appreciate their role in conflict resolution, service-delivery, stability and governance, especially in rural South Africa. As we note in a section of this booklet, ‘The day-to-day work of conflict mediation that women traditional leaders, and traditional leaders more broadly, do is not widely recognised, legitimised or acknowledged.