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Women’s National Coalition
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ArticleANC Women’s League (ANCWL)
… League lobbied all the women's organisations to set up a coalition. The task of this coalition would be to do research, co-ordinate, and draw up a … Olive…
ArticleUnited Women’s Organisation (UWO)
The United Women’s Organisation (UWO) was launched in April 1981 with 400 delegates from the Western Cape attending. Some of the women who pioneered the…
ArticleWomens Rights
… Womens Rights …
ArticleUnited Women’s Congress (UWCO)
… (FEDTRAW) . Ongoing project in commemoration of the 1956 womens' march against pass laws …
ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
… of South African Women (FSAW) and Women’s National Coalition (WNC). In 1943, women were allowed to join the ANC … all came together to commence the Women’s…
ArticleWomen’s Revolts in Natal: 1959
Most people credit the abolition of apartheid to many organisations and leaders, such as the African National Congress and Nelson Mandela. It is, however,…
ArticleThe Women’s Charter
Adopted at the Founding Conference of the Federation of South African Women Johannesburg, 17 April 1954. The Charter expressed the philosophy and aims of…
ArticleUDF Women’s Congress
ArticleBlack Women’s Federation
In 1973, Natal women formed a federation of Black women after Fatima Meer returned from the USA, where Black American women were moved by the problems faced by…
Bantu Women’s League
The Bantu Women's League was the first women's organisation in South Africa. It was started in 1918 by one of our earliest women activists, Dr Charlotte Maxeke…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… 1950, Bertha Mkize of the African National Congress Womens League ( ANCWL ) was a leading figure, while in … Activist” Available at http://www…
The ANC Women’s League in the Struggle for Women’s Rights in South Africa by Meghan Knapp
This article was written by Meghan Knapp and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Abstract The African National…
ArticleWomen’s Rights and Representation
It was not until the introduction of the Bill of Rights that all women in this country received formal recognition as equal citizens. South African women …
ArticlePAC’s African Women’s Organisation
The aim of the African Women's Organisation is to rally African women under the banner of African Nationalism and to educate women socially, politically, and…
ArticleAZAPO’s Women’s Wing - Imbeleko
Imbeleko is the women's wing of the Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO), formed in 1982 to address the specific challenges faced by black women under…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August
‘Strijdom, you have tampered with the women, You have struck a rock.' So runs the song composed to mark this historic occasion. By the middle of 1956…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… at the CODESA under the auspices of the Women's National Coalition (WNC) and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was chosen to … of the Gender Advisory Committee. The…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
As the 1950s gave way to the 1960s the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) both announced plans to tackle the pass laws for…
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… League before Lilian Ngoyi, had sort of drifted away from womens' activities, and she had half of the WNT following her … were coming in from other areas and…
ArticleThe Women’s struggle Timeline 1905-2006
A decade by decade events account of the women's struggle in South Africa. 1905 Charlotte Maxeke, formerly a Kimberley schoolteacher, becomes the first…
ArticleContemporary issues: Women’s struggle, 1900-1994
A tumultuous history has left women in present day South Africa with a number of challenges to overcome. Most obstacles to the development of women can be…
Women’s Enfranchisement Association of the Union (WEAU)
The WEAU and votes for white women Until 1930 there were no women in South Africa who had the right to vote. It was felt that a women's place was in the…
Barbara Masekela’s speech (ANC Women’s Section), 1982
ArticleCape Town Women’s Food Committee c.1946 -1953
ArticleThe 1913 Women’s anti-pass campaign in the Orange Free State
When the Union of South Africa was established in 1910, there was already a foundation for pass system. However, over time men and women resisted the…
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
This article was written by Cait Chapman and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership projectWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s…
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
This article was written by Peter LaNasa and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Abstract: This essay discusses…
Organisations involved in the Women’s struggle, 1900-1994
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… is elected first President of ANCWL The Women's National Coalition is formed. 1992 Dorothy Nyembe receives the Chief … conditions and agriculture. April ,…