Margaret Ballinger (née Hodgson ; 1894–1980) alikuwa Rais wa kwanza wa Chama cha Liberal Party of South Africa na Mbunge nchini Afrika Kusin. Mnamo 1944, Ballinger alijulikana kama "Queen of the Blacks" na jarida la TIME . Margaret Hodgson alizaliwa Glasgow, Scotland mwaka 1894 na kuhamia Afrika Kusini na familia yake alipokuwa mtoto. Baba yake alifika kabla tu ya Vita vya Boer na kuishia kupigana na Waingereza. Hodgson (Ballinger) alisoma katika Chuo cha Huguenot huko Wellington kabla ya kuendelea na masomo yake huko Uingereza. Huko Uingereza alienda Chuo cha Somerville, Oxford . South Africa:Queen of the Blacks, Time Magazine, 3 July 1944, accessed March 2010