However, Afrikaner and black women have been taking very different paths to power. Where Afrikaner feminists historically have been stifled in their own communities, gaining no political or economic clout, black women of the African National Congress (ANC) have reaped the benefits of imposed quotas, which Krog describes as “one of the most important steps in empowering women and reconstructing a society after conflict.”
“It is only when there is a flow of female power from grassroots to tree top,” Krog writes, “that real change towards reconstruction can begin.”
