Gender Quotas in South Africa - Addressing women’s descriptive political representation through an intersectional analysis
This research is an attempt to critically re-examine the effects of gender quotas on women’s descriptive representation in South Africa. South Africa has been internationally acclaimed as one of the success stories in bringing more women into parliament trough the introduction of a gender quota. However, the quota in place has been introduced by a single, dominant political party, the African Nati
