The Rock and the March: Celebrating the Origins of Women’s March
Celebrating the legacy of Women’s Month The Rock and the March: How ‘Wathint’ abafazi, Wathint’ imbokodo’ Forged a Nation’s Future On August 9, 1956, a powerful force of over 20,000 women—black, white, Indian, and ‘coloured’—marched in unison to the Union Buildings in Pretoria.1 They were not an army in uniform, but an army of mothers,…