[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":96},["ShallowReactive",2],{"path-/women/path/the-women-who-ended-apartheid":3,"path-cover-/women/path/the-women-who-ended-apartheid":49,"path-women-/women/path/the-women-who-ended-apartheid":52,"path-further-/women/path/the-women-who-ended-apartheid":87},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"cover":17,"description":18,"extension":19,"further":20,"kicker":23,"meta":24,"navigation":25,"path":26,"seo":27,"slug":28,"stem":29,"steps":30,"__hash__":48},"paths/women/path/the-women-who-ended-apartheid.md","The women who ended apartheid",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":13},"minimark",[9],[10,11,12],"p",{},"The usual telling of apartheid's end has one man walking out of prison. This path follows the women who kept the movement breathing for the eight decades before that day, in the order they picked up the work, so that the handover from one to the next is visible.",{"title":14,"searchDepth":15,"depth":15,"links":16},"",2,[],"winnie-madikizela-mandela","From a 1913 anti-pass protest to the 1990 release, six South African women in the order they took up the fight. One founded the movement, one led 20,000 to Pretoria, one voted no alone for 13 years, one was killed by a letter bomb, and two held the country together while the men were on Robben Island.","md",[21,22],"the-womens-march-of-1956","charlotte-maxeke-voice-across-the-sea","One cause",{},true,"/women/path/the-women-who-ended-apartheid",{"title":5,"description":18},"the-women-who-ended-apartheid","women/path/the-women-who-ended-apartheid",[31,34,37,40,43,46],{"slug":32,"why":33},"charlotte-maxeke","She organised against passes in 1913, thirty-five years before the word apartheid existed.",{"slug":35,"why":36},"lilian-ngoyi","Maxeke founded the first women's league; Ngoyi led its heir, and 20,000 women, to Pretoria in 1956.",{"slug":38,"why":39},"albertina-sisulu","Ngoyi was banned into silence; Sisulu did the same work through 26 years of her husband's imprisonment.",{"slug":41,"why":42},"helen-suzman","While Sisulu was banned in Soweto, Suzman was the one MP in parliament voting no, for 13 years.",{"slug":44,"why":45},"ruth-first","Suzman fought inside parliament; First exposed the regime in print, and a letter bomb answered her in 1982.",{"slug":17,"why":47},"First was killed in exile; Madikizela-Mandela stayed, was jailed and banished, and kept resistance visible.","UE15nLIKfr6G_O8ejvTPNEw6ETgUNb4EXOHjNkHiHaY",{"image":50,"ogFocal":51},"/women/winnie-madikizela-mandela.jpg",null,[53,61,67,73,78,83],{"name":54,"slug":38,"image":55,"country":56,"born":57,"died":58,"era":59,"readingTime":15,"ogFocal":60},"Albertina Sisulu","/women/albertina-sisulu.jpg","South Africa",1918,2011,"Modern","50% 10%",{"name":62,"slug":32,"image":63,"country":56,"born":64,"died":65,"era":66,"readingTime":15,"ogFocal":51},"Charlotte Maxeke","/women/charlotte-maxeke.jpg",1871,1939,"Colonial",{"name":68,"slug":41,"image":69,"country":56,"born":70,"died":71,"era":66,"readingTime":72,"ogFocal":51},"Helen Suzman","/women/helen-suzman.jpg",1917,2009,1,{"name":74,"slug":35,"image":75,"country":56,"born":76,"died":77,"era":66,"readingTime":15,"ogFocal":51},"Lilian Ngoyi","/women/lilian-ngoyi.jpg",1911,1980,{"name":79,"slug":44,"image":80,"country":56,"born":81,"died":82,"era":66,"readingTime":15,"ogFocal":51},"Ruth First","/women/ruth-first.jpg",1925,1982,{"name":84,"slug":17,"image":50,"country":56,"born":85,"died":86,"era":59,"readingTime":15,"ogFocal":51},"Winnie Madikizela-Mandela",1936,2018,[88,92],{"title":89,"slug":22,"category":90,"readingTime":91,"image":63},"The Voice That Crossed the Sea: Charlotte Maxeke and the Long Road Home","History",4,{"title":93,"slug":21,"category":90,"readingTime":94,"image":95},"The Women's March of 1956: When 20,000 Women Shook Pretoria",5,"/articles/the-womens-march-of-1956.jpg",1789124430646]