Taxi strike's effects show how much the government has failed
13 August 2023 - 00:00
On August 9 1956, when Lillian Ngoyi, Helen Joseph, Sophia Williams-De Bruyn and Rahima Moosa led a peaceful phalanx of 20,000 women marching through Pretoria, across the gardens of the Union Buildings, up the steps and into the amphitheatre, the petition they were there to deliver to then prime minister JG Strijdom was against the despised and racist system of apartheid pass laws. ..
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