ABSTRACT
JENNIFER R.WILKINSON Hopes were high when after decades of enforced separation, women from across the colour line in South Africa who were concerned about their position as women and about the oppression of women, were finally able to meet as colleagues in 1990 when apartheid officially came to an end. The first notable occasion was the Women and Gender conference in Durban in 1991, followed soon after by the Lawyers for Human Rights conference in Cape Town. Then in 1992 the opportunity arose for South African women to attend the first African Women’s Diaspora in Nigeria. At last South African feminists, as a group, could meet their African counterparts to the North.
