The Historic Day of National Women

National Women's Day (English for "National Women") is a public holiday in South Africa each year on 9 August takes place. It commemorates the march of many women, on 9 August 1956 took place. They demonstrated against an apartheid law that black Africans undertook to carry a special passport, which limited the movement of the wearer.

On 9 August 1956 resulted in 20,000 women a protest march through the seat of government the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest against the proposed amendments to the Urban Area Act. The laws of 1950 are also called Pass Laws. They laid pack with over 100,000 signatures from at the door to the office of the Prime Minister Strijdom.

The demonstrators stood silently in front of the building 30 minutes. Many of the women had their children here. Many women who worked for whites as a nanny, brought with her charges. The women sang a protest song that was written for the occasion: Wathint 'abafazi, wathint' imbokodo! Uzokufa! (Zulu for "you have touched the women, you've hit a rock! You will die!").

Since then, this rate is in the form You strike a woman, you strike a rock (for English, "If you strike a woman beat you a rock") for courage and strength of women in South Africa.

The protest march was led by Lilian Ngoyi, Helen Joseph, Rahima Moosa and Sophia Williams-De Bruyn. Frances Baard also took part in the demonstration.

Since 9 August 1994 will be celebrated this Memorial Day in South Africa every year as Women's Day. The 50th Anniversary, there was a repeat of the protest march. Many participants in the original demonstration were there again.


Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Women%E2%80%99s_Day


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