The adoption of the apartheid policy by the National Party which came to power in 1948, which was used to intensify the racial exclusion and the oppression of the black majority resulted in the passage of several laws such as the Colour Bar Act, Influx Control Act, Group Areas Act, Separate Amenities Act, Immorality Act, Bantu Administration Act and many other laws to foster racial segregation and socioeconomic marginalisation of the black majority, especially, women.