[RSA Parliamentary Second sitting on 13th November 2024, in Cape Town Parliament, following the adoption by the National Assembly on the hashtag #TeamFreeSanitaryPads Petition calling for a Menstrual Health Rights Bill and Law with over 40 000 signatures]
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The Team Free Sanitary Pads petition was an online one started on Change . Org in 2019 by Ms. Nokuzola Ndwandwe under her Team Free Sanitary Pads Campaign - a collective movement fighting for Gender Equality and Menstrual Health Rights in South Africa since 2014 as recognised by the United Nations globally. 
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Following the 29th October 2024 adoption by RSA Parliament Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities. On the 13th November 2024 a second sitting was heard in Parliament with Team Free Sanitary Pads representing over 31 organisations in the Joint Portfolio Committee meeting with the Department of Higher Education and Department of Basic Education - who support the calls as per Ms. Nokuzola Ndwandwe's presentation proposing a Menstrual Health Rights Bill.
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The petition was first submitted in a protest action held in Cape Town Parliament and Union Buildings in Pretoria in August 2022. The previous RSA Parliament Administration led by former Speaker of the National Assembly Hon. Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula approved the petition - and was revived in the current RSA Parliament Administration by the National Assembly Speaker Hon. Thoko Didiza who further mandated all the Ministers as well as Government departments to heed the petition.

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Photo cred: Parliament of the Republic of South Africa @ParliamentRSA pictured left to right Ms Nokuzola Ndwandwe, Menstrual Health Rights Activist and  Dr. Mimmy Martha Gondwe, Deputy Minister