The remarkable Ouma and Oupa Steenkamp who were thorns...
When (white) women were given the vote in 1930, Mevrou ACS Steenkamp took the opportunity to run against DF Malan for the Calvinia seat. She didn’t win – but when she died in 1959, Die Burger ran an obituary headlined, ‘Vir haar was Dr Malan baie, baie bang’. Nettie’s granddaughter to...