Society pays tribute to female heroes while putting women in danger

08 August 2021 - 00:00 By PUMLA DINEO GQOLA

Each August, South Africans turn our collective attention to women's historic contributions and contemporary value. We do so inspired by the example of the women who marched on the Union Buildings on August 9 1956, demanding to see the apartheid prime minister Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom. ..

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