President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers the keynote address at the National Women's Day
President Cyril Ramaphosa has lauded the thousands of women who marched to the Union Buildings in 1956 to protest against the extension of pass laws to women. He states that it is due to the women of South Africa that the country enjoys freedom today.
“Today, we have our freedom because the women of our country also marched to the Union Buildings on the 9th of August. So, in many ways than one, we, as South Africans, and especially we, the men in South Africa, must say thank you to the women of our country of 1956 who were brave, maybe even braver than us men, who marched against the might of the apartheid state. So we say thank you! Thank you! …. the women of South Africa.
This annual public holiday commemorates an eventful day in South Africa’s history where on this day, in 1956, Sophia Williams De Bruyn, Rahima Moosa, Helen Joseph, Lillian Ngoyi and Lilian Diedericks led 20 000 women to the Union Buildings in protest.Ramaphosa has lamented the conditions under which many South African women live. The President has acknowledged that much more needs to be done to advance women in the country.
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