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Movement archive · South Africa
South Africa9 August 1956
About 20,000 women marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria against the extension of apartheid pass laws to women, singing 'Wathint' abafazi, wathint' imbokodo' (you strike a woman, you strike a rock). 9 August is now National Women's Day.
Lilian Ngoyi, Helen Joseph, Rahima Moosa and Sophia Williams-De Bruyn.
No passes for women; an end to apartheid.