The Women’s Heritage Monument in Lillian Ngoyi Square was supposed to be operational by Women’s Day but the monument is in a dire state of neglect.
On Women’s Day we celebrate the contributions of the 20,000 women who in 1956 marched on the Union Buildings in protest, but 66 years later their achievements are not getting the dignified treatment they deserve.
John Perlman spoke to the director of communication for the Gauteng Department of Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation, Nomazwe Ntlokwana, and Democratic Alliance representative for Sports, Arts, Culture and Recreation, Kingsol Chabalala, about the state of the monument. What we found there is that the monument is unkempt, elevators are not working, pipelines close to the parking lot are leaking and when it rains, they are flooding, the roof is leaking…