Embassy Activities
Women's Day 2014
9 AUGUST 2014
Women's Day marks the anniversary of the great women's march of 1956, where women marched to the Union Buildings to protest against the carrying of pass books.
On 9 August 1956, about 20 000 women marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest against legislation aimed at tightening the apartheid government's control over the movement of black women in urban areas.
South Africa commemorates Women’s Month in August as a tribute to those women who protest against the extension of Pass Laws to women.