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Women’s Rights and Representation
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Mar 31, 2011

Women’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 eq...

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Poverty and development
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Mar 31, 2011

Poverty and development

One of the most important issues for women in South Africa has always been that of poverty. During the apartheid years, ...

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Health and welfare
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Mar 31, 2011

Health and welfare

South Africa is a country of relative prosperity, with vast resources and a modern infrastructure. In contrast to this, ...

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Mar 31, 2011

The girl child

Gender differences manifest themselves in South Africa in the altogether different experiences of boys and girls in scho...

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Mar 31, 2011

List of women who died in exile

Bucibo, Joyce Asvat, Zainab Cothoza, June Rose Nontsikelelo Dadoo, Winnie Ditshabako, Brenda Ngqose, Daphne ...

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Mar 31, 2011

List of women who were banned by the Apartheid government

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Mar 31, 2011

The Liberation Struggle in South Africa

      The Liberation Struggle in South Africa homehome...

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Mar 31, 2011

The Liberation Struggle in South Africa

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Liberation history Timeline 1900-1909
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Mar 31, 2011

Liberation history Timeline 1900-1909

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Mar 31, 2011

Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900

Several factors seemed to pave the way to apartheid, among them a colonial conquest, land dispossession, economic impove...

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South Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
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Mar 31, 2011

South Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990

South Africa's racial policy and the UNOSouth Africa and apartheid was placed on the agenda of the United Nations for th...

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Mar 31, 2011

The Liberation Struggle in South Africa

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Mar 31, 2011

The Liberation Struggle in South Africa

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Mar 31, 2011

Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959

Immorality Amendment Act, Act No 21 of 1950 This Act was one of the most controversial pieces of Apartheid legislation. ...

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Mar 31, 2011

Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1930-1939

The Transvaal Asiatic Land Tenure of 1930 The (Amendment) Bill is introduced by Minister of Interior as a result of rec...

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