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Title:The Women's Struggle for Equality during South Africa's Transition to Democracy
Author:Meintjes, SheilaISNI
Year:1996
Periodical:Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa
Issue:30
Pages:47-64
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:equal opportunity
women
law
Women's Issues
Law, Human Rights and Violence
Politics and Government
Law, Legal Issues, and Human Rights
Equality and Liberation
Ethnic and Race Relations
organizations
External link:https://d.lib.msu.edu/tran/293/OBJ/download
Abstract:The inclusion of 'women' as a category along with race in the 1993 Interim Constitution of the Republic of South Africa was the result of challenges made by women's organizations to the constitutional negotiating process over the previous two years. This paper charts that process, and critically examines its successes and failures. It begins with an evaluation of the nature of women's political organization in the past, and the issues and demands which formed the basis of women's political involvement in order to provide the context within which post-1990 initiatives occurred. It then focuses on the role of the Women's National Coalition (WNC), launched in 1992, in drawing up a Women's Charter of equality. Finally, it suggests how far real equality can be achieved in South Africa in the future. Bibliogr., notes, ref.
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