Seventy years after South Africa’s women’s march, the struggle is not over

Women helped defeat apartheid’s pass laws, but many still face violence, poverty and unemployment.

Statistics and budgets do not reflect whether the state’s interventions are fit for purpose and effective.

Morocco earns Women's World Cup berth with 2-1 WAFCON quarterfinal victory over South Africa  Toronto Star

Sakina Ouzraoui and Hanane Aït El Haj both scored and Morocco earned a spot in next summer’s Women’s World Cup with a 2-1 victory over South Africa in the quarterfinals of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations

South Africa commemorates on Sunday 70 years since the Women’s March of 1956, when around 20,000 women of all races marched to the administrative capital, Pretoria, to protest apartheid laws forcing Black women to carry passes that restricted their movement.

South African women willl commemorate the achievements of the 1956 Women's March on Sunday. But they say their fight for freedom is unfinished.