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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.