MAMOKETE LIJANE: Women’s Day: so much achieved, yet so much left undone
When reflecting on Women’s Day I feel a deep rage at things undone, bodies unloved and citizens betrayed
09 August 2022 - 17:35
National Women’s Day in SA commemorates the multiracial march of about 20,000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria on August 9 1956 to protest against the introduction of pass laws.
When reflecting on what it means for me to be a woman in SA today, I cannot but be appreciative of what women’s activism has done for my life...
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