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Interrogating the exclusion(s) of black women from rape law reform processes in post-apartheid South Africa
Thesis (PhD (Political Science))--University of Pretoria, 2021.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/84706 Interrogating the exclusion(s) of black women from rape law reform processes in post-apartheid South Africa Zondi, Siphamandla mpumi.onelove@gmail.com Motlafi, Nompumelelo UCTD Rape law reform Gender-based violence (GBV) Coloniality of gender Ontological-cultural exclusion Economic-spatial exclusion Thesis (PhD (Political Science))--University of Pretoria, 2021. The thesis investigates and analyses the ways in which Black women have been objectively and subjectively excluded from rape law reform processes in post-apartheid South Africa. Exclusion is herein understood to encompass: a) absence or being literally left out from the processes and not being able to access the benefits entailed; b) the experience of being marginalised, undermined or overlooked within the processes; c) choosing to abstain or opt out of the processes. The two broad processes involved in rape law reform are law making or input processes and the implementation or output processes. The thesis focuses on the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act No.32 of 2007 as the first post-apartheid statute to focus specifically on rape and sexual assault. Using a decolonial feminist lens and a qualitative research design to understand the problem of exclusion that emerges mainly from in-depth interviews with Black women expert-activists, as well as from primary and secondary literature, the thesis proposes three dimensions of exclusion: (i) ontological-cultural; (ii) epistemic-educational; and (iii) economic-spatial. The study’s central finding is that across the above-mentioned layers and dimensions of exclusion, Black women have experienced exclusion on the combined bases of race, culture, sex-gender and class. Black women’s exclusion is a microcosm for understanding the shortcomings in South Africa’s democratisation as well as its cultural, economic and epistemic transformation. Political Sciences PhD (Political Science) Unrestricted 2022-03-30T09:50:05Z 2022-03-30T09:50:05Z 2022-09 2021 Thesis * S2022 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/84706 en © 2022 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Rape law reform Gender-based violence (GBV) Coloniality of gender Ontological-cultural exclusion Economic-spatial exclusion Interrogating the exclusion(s) of black women from rape law reform processes in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title | Interrogating the exclusion(s) of black women from rape law reform processes in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_full | Interrogating the exclusion(s) of black women from rape law reform processes in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Interrogating the exclusion(s) of black women from rape law reform processes in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Interrogating the exclusion(s) of black women from rape law reform processes in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_short | Interrogating the exclusion(s) of black women from rape law reform processes in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_sort | interrogating the exclusion s of black women from rape law reform processes in post apartheid south africa |
| topic | UCTD Rape law reform Gender-based violence (GBV) Coloniality of gender Ontological-cultural exclusion Economic-spatial exclusion |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/84706 |