South Africa celebrates Women’s Day annually to honour the approximately 20 000 women who marched to the Union Buildings on August 9 1956 to protest against the extension of pass laws.
Seventy years after their bold stand, an important question remains: if the rights they fought for do not translate into economic opportunity, agency and the power to innovate, have we truly achieved equality?
More than three decades after our first official Women…
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