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’76 Inked!: A Women’s Month Festival Honouring Sibongile Mkhabela, 50 Years After the Soweto Uprising
Seventy years ago, on August 9, 1956, thousands of South African women of all races marched on the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest the extension of pass laws to Black women, a demonstration that would eventually give South Africa its Women’s Day.
Originally published by Brittle Paper.