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Charlotte Maxeke, becomes the first South African Black woman to earn a Bachelor's degree.
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Cecilia Makiwane becomes the first Black professional nurse in South Africa
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The first mass resistance campaign in our South Africa women encouraged miners in Newcastle to strike against starvation wages.
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Black and Coloured women in the Free State protested against having to carry identity passes, which White women were not required to do.
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Charlotte Maxeke started the first formal women’s organisation (Bantu Women’s League) which was created to resist the pass laws.
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White women (18+) were given the right to vote in 1930.
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Maxeke also helped create the African National Congress Women’s League.
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The first general election at which white women could vote was the 1933 election.
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Women could join the ANC
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The Afrikaner National Party rose to power with their policy of apartheid. They implemented the law that people of different races were forbidden from 'mixing' socially and were moved to separate living areas.
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ANC Women’s League was formed with Ida Mtwana as its first president.
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Women from all races came together to protest the Urban Areas Act of 1950.
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20 000 women to marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to present a petition against the carrying of passes by women.
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Dorothy Nyembe led a series of protests in 1959, that lasted four years, in KwaZulu-Natal.
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UN adopted the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child,
set of guidelines that recognises and enforced the protection of children and their rights.
South African children suffered under apartheid.
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Women received greater economic participation, almost 32 percent of women became active in the South African economy.
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Arrested for her leader ship in the protests and leading the movement.
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Afrikaans and English were made compulsory. 3000 and 10 000 students marched peacefully, and were met with heavily armed police who fired teargas and later live ammunition on demonstrating students. 176-700 people died.
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End of apartheid in 1994, all women were granted the right to vote.
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was established that focused on equalising opportunities and economic participation for women
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President Thabo Mbeki appointed South Africa’s very first female deputy president, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
