History of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… member of parliament), but elsewhere in South Africa black people (whether male or female) had no vote, nor were white … Women's Council (AWC), which was established in the mid-1940s. The AWC became active in issues relating to squatter … by the 1920s (and the increased rapidly in the 1930s and 1940s), with women such as Ray Alexander, Hetty McLeod, …