Women in battle dress: how clothes have been used as a form of protest

Dressed all in black or refusing to be draped in black, wearing traditional regalia or protesting against it — or even going naked: the clothing might change, but its place in women’s protest has not, write Leonie Wagner and Nadine Dreyer

09 August 2020 - 00:00
By Leonie Wagner and Nadine Dreyer

When Tshegofatso Pule was found stabbed to death and hanged from a tree in June, South Africans were overcome with grief.

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