Happy Womens Day

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August the 9^th in 1956 saw 20 000 South African women march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria for the abolishment of The Urban Areas Act (Pass Laws Act) which entailed for every black woman to carry a mini docket wherever they went or else face the ugly face of the Apartheid Judicial System.  Over 100 000 signatures were signed and placed at the then Prime Minister J.G Strijdom’s door. Mr Strijdom pissed so much in his pants that day that he never wanted to see another Dom Pass ever in miserable life and the women won, no more Pass Law.

|If it were not for the courage of Lillian Ngoyi, Helen Joseph, Albertina Sisulu and Sophia Williams-De Bruyn, we probably would not have witnessed the liberation of South African women as is today. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma would not have been the Head of the AU, Phumzile Mlambo Ncuka would not have made history as the First Woman Vice President of South Africa, Mangwashi, Victoria Phiyega would not have been our very first SA Police Commissioner and so the list goes on….

Surely we have a long way to go in having more female board members and CEOs in SA, more women engineers, doctors, scientists, judicial figure heads etc… But one thing is certain we’ve come a long way and as South African woman  and are still yet to make much  history in this country and the rest of the continent. 
Oh! And I cannot thank enough my extraordinary Media Studies 3 Lecturer Marian Pike for her vast, rich, in-depth knowledge and wisdom. Without you I would never have it Simply Put!

Happy National Womens Day to all the Amazing women of Southern AfricaJ. Wathint'Abafazi Wathint'imbokodo "you strike a woman, you strike a rock".