Women's Day South Africa

2022 - 8 - 8

Post cover — Image courtesy of "The Conversation CA"

Lilian Ngoyi: an heroic South African woman whose story hasn't ... (The Conversation CA)

The pioneering role she played, and the sacrifices she made, extended well beyond the famous 1956 Women's March.

She was unable to meet with more than three people at a time and could not attend a lecture, go to the cinema or accept invitations to weddings, funerals or parties of any sort. At her funeral, activist and church leader Desmond Tutu said that when the true history of South Africa was written Ngoyi’s name would be in “letters of gold”. She did not lose hope, however, and like Mandela, took solace in gardening, planting seeds sent to her by her overseas friends. In a 1963 arrest, she spent 71 days in solitary, an experience which affected her ability to focus. In a 1956 profile in the leading black magazine of the day, Drum, author and activist Ezekiel Mphahlele wrote: Her youth typified the contemporary experience of many black women in urban South Africa. She fell pregnant at 19, married at 23, but was widowed at 26. Perhaps because she was not the wife of a high-profile ANC leader and lived much of her life as a banned person, dying in penury, there is no Lilian Ngoyi Foundation and no substantive biography. She was soon arrested again and detained for five months, 19 days of which she spent in solitary confinement. In 1955 Ngoyi was sponsored for an overseas trip by the Women’s International Democratic Federation, regarded as a Soviet Front organisation. The experience abroad, of being treated like a human being for the first time, had invigorated her. As the only girl in a family of four, she was the last in line when it came to education. She moved to Johannesburg to take up a short-lived position as one of the country’s first black female trainee nurses at City Deep Mine Hospital.

Australian High Commissioner Gita Kamath visited Nyami Berries in ... (FreshPlaza.com)

Women's Day is a special celebration for United Exports, which strives relentlessly for gender equality, with some 61% of their permanent workforce and 83% of ...

During her visit, Kamath said “It is great to see how the strong people-to-people links between Australia and South Africa underpin our growing trade and investment relationship to the benefit of both countries. The OZblu® varietals (bred by top Australian breeder Dave Mazzardis) and their associated intellectual property has created an impressive number of jobs, particularly for women. Women’s Day is a special celebration for United Exports, which strives relentlessly for gender equality, with some 61% of their permanent workforce and 83% of their seasonal employees being women.

Good omen for Amakhosi! Kaizer Chiefs have NEVER lost on ... (The South African)

Since the introduction of national Women's Day in 1994, Kaizer Chiefs are unbeaten in league action on the public holiday.

An inspirational story of hope for Women's Day from Thaba Chweu ... (Lowvelder)

Shiri is a 39-year-old foreign national from Harare, Zimbabwe, and started trading in South Africa in 2013. She and her family have so many opportunities ...

Shiri is a 39-year-old foreign national from Harare, Zimbabwe, and started trading in South Africa in 2013. Shiri is a 39-year-old foreign national from Harare, Zimbabwe, and started trading in South Africa in 2013. She and her family have so many opportunities here and she knows it would not have been the case for her and her children in Harare.

Conversation on art, ancestry, and community with Gogo Mahlodi ... (Eyewitness News)

This Women's Day sangoma Gogo Mahlodi and artist Puleng Mongale host Societea at Native Rebels in Soweto.

Mongale finds that her collage work, through self-portraiture, allows her to put together pieces of worlds she's never been a part of and worlds that she's trying to forge right now. And I think a big part of the conversation that we'll be having around ancestry will speak to that,” said Mahlodi. When we see them as people, we also understand that they had challenges and limitations of their time, we get to understand our gifts/talents better, our family dynamics and dysfunction, generational trauma, etc. A genuine relationship with our ancestors also helps us see and remember them as human beings, as opposed to constantly thinking of them as "warriors" and supernatural beings. “I hope people get to feel like they're a part of a larger community and an even bigger "calling". It's really not a coincidence that an event such as society is happening right now, among black folk and also post the isolation of the pandemic. “I hope that people learn more than anything this is a platform to share and to learn and to impart knowledge by sharing our experiences.

OPINION | German ambassador to SA, Andreas Peschke: True ... (News24)

Societies in which women participate equally are more secure, more peaceful, more economically vibrant and more culturally imaginative, writes the German ...

The task is as pressing in Germany as it is in Africa. We, therefore, want to develop a more structured and deliberate approach to the cross-cutting task of involving women in our foreign and our development policy. Or the mothers of our own German constitution, like Elisabeth Selbert or Friederike Nadig. But also thinking of the girls and young women today and our responsibility to build a brighter future for them by giving them the representation, the rights and the resources they deserve. Disclaimer: News24 encourages freedom of speech and the expression of diverse views. We know that societies in which women participate equally are more secure, more peaceful, more economically vibrant and more culturally imaginative. Importantly, Women's Day also reminds us of the necessity to reflect on the fact that true equality between women and men is still a long way to go. Women's and girls' rights are also at the centre of German foreign policy.

Women's freedom of movement now more restricted than 9 August ... (CapeTown ETC)

The march, recognised as one of the largest mass gatherings of women in South Africa, was organised by the Federation of South African Women. It was led by ...

The lack of consequences illustrated in a well-publicised case like the Krugersdorp gang rape shows that the police and this government are not serious about making the women in our country safe. None of the 120 suspects was held in connection with the gang rape. The police officer was a longstanding contact of mine during my reporting days and was determined to catch this monster. I suggested a sting operation with an undercover police officer following her on her run and catching the predator making the threat in the act. Their freedom of movement in particular is curtailed by the constant threat men pose as predators in our society. These words in isiXhosa formed part of a new song an estimated 20 000 South African women chanted at the Union Buildings in Pretoria after their march there on 9 August 1956.