Empowering women crucial to solving global water crisis
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04 August 2021 - 08:50
Every year, in August, our country marks women’s month. We also pay tribute to the more than 20,000 women who marched to the Union Buildings on August 9 1956 in protest against the extension of pass laws to women. It was a system meant to control women even further and reduce them to passive beings, at the mercy of men.
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