WinnieMandelaInternationalAirport 'We have become complicit in the false idea that only men led in the revolution. From films to artworks, the image of women is marginalised.”
EFF leader Julius Malema, whose party has proposed that Cape Town International Airport be renamed in honour of late struggle icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.There were heated exchanges in parliament in Cape Town on Tuesday after an EFF proposal to include late struggle icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s name for consideration in the renaming of Cape Town International Airport.
“We are calling for the restoration of equality in how we shape the memory of where we come from, the heroes and heroines that confronted the difficult and impossible conditions in order to shine the sun of freedom on our dark and painful past.”“Celebration after celebration, we have left the patriarchal memory and history uninterrupted. We have become complicit in the false idea that only men led in the revolution. From films to artworks, the image of women is marginalised.
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