Sex and Politics in South Africa

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Neville Wallace Hoad, Karen Martin, Graeme Reid
Juta and Company Ltd, 2005 - History - 255 pages
This book tells how South Africa came to lead the world in enshrining sexual equality in our Bill of Rights, which forms part of the Constitution. The achievement, which has been hailed as a model for the rest of the world, did not come about without a long struggle. This was spearheaded by gender activists and movements during the 1980s, whose campaigns on the one hand evoked hostility from the apartheid state and were also dismissed as an irrelevance by conservative factions within the liberation movement. Indeed, the end of apartheid did not automatically guarantee that sexual equality would be realised, and the book explains how in the end this was achieved. The volume draws upon the rich archive of the Gay and Lesbian association and incorporates fascinating first-hand documents from the time as well as essays by participants in the events and later commentators.
 

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Letters from prison Simon Nkoli CONTENTS 158 ARCHIVE Letter to Kevan Botha Caroline HeatonNicholls 164 ARCHIVE Photographs of GLOW...
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Photographs of Simon Nkolis releasefromprison party
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Address at Simon Nkolis memorial service Kevan Botha
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Simon Nkoli obituary Zackie Achmat
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Cartoon n Poefadder het my gepik
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The Constitution
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Fragments from the archives II Graeme Reid
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Submission to the Convention for a Democratic South Africa The Equality Foundation
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We must claim our citizenship National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality
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Letter to the Constitutional Assembly Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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The Equality Clause
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Afterword Bafana Mhlanga
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Guide to the Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa Anthony Manion
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List of Acronyms 254 Index
Acknowledgements

Presentation to GLOW Action Committee and SHOC workshop Edwin Cameron
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Engendering gay and lesbian rights The Equality Clause in the South African Constitution Jacklyn Cock
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