South Africa's Women’s Month: “Empowered Women, Empower Nations”

Since 1994, August has been declared Women’s Month in South Africa, and Aug. 9 is Women’s Day. This was an acknowledgement of the role women played in the liberation of South Africa from apartheid to democracy. This date emanates from Aug. 9, 1956, when more than 20,000 women from all walks of life, regardless of race,

[Daily Maverick] This imagined letter places a composite speaker inside the thirty-minute silence of 9 August 1956. It draws on the events of the Women's March and the demands articulated by the Federation of South African Women.

This imagined letter places a composite speaker inside the thirty-minute silence of 9 August 1956. It draws on the events of the Women’s March and the demands articulated by the Federation of South African Women.