Recognition and redistribution: State of the women's movement in South Africa 20 years after democratic transition

This article attempts to analyse the shift from a mass-based women's movement in the form of the Women's National Coalition in South Africa to more localised temporal movements since political transition 20 years ago. I apply Nancy Fraser's theory of recognition and redistribution to illustrate how two alliances – the Shukumisa campaign around gender-based violence and the Alliance for Rural Democracy around the Traditional Courts Bill – meet the criteria of localised temporal movements that engage the State with the intention of recognising identities and redistributing resources to promote gender equality.