Engendering the Parliamentary Agenda: Strategic Opportunity or Waste of Feminist Energy?

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In 1997, a project committee was appointed to the South African Law Commission (SALC) to undertake an investigation into sexual offences law applicable to children. Ten years later, with the investigation having been expanded to include adults, this process finally concluded in the promulgation of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, 32 of 2007 (SOA or ‘the Act’) on 16 December 2007. The
result was a disappointment, being first and foremost a clumsily drafted encyclopaedia of sexual offences, rather than the major advance in rape survivors’ rights envisaged by women’s and children’s organisations.

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