South Africa’s National Womens Day – Why?

NATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2010 – SOUTH AFRICA
South Africa celebrates Women’s Day every year on the 9th August and apart from it being a bank holiday in the country, a day everyone gets to stay home, we look into why it really exists?
WHAT DOES NATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY REPRESENT
	National Womens Day celebrated in South Africa on the 9th August each year commemorates the national march of women on this day in 1956 against the legislation that required the African persons to carry a “pass”, special identification documents which curtailed an African’s freedom of movement during the Apartheid Era
THE EVENT AND WHO INSTIGATED IT
	The march was led by Lilian Ngoyi, Helen Joseph, Rahima Moosa and Sophia Williams-De Bruyn  with 20 000 women who marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria in protest against the proposed Urban Areas Act of 1950.   They left bundles of petitions with 100 000 signatures at Prime Minister J.G. Strijdom’s office doors.  Outside they stood silently for 30 minutes, many with children on their backs.  Those who were working for white families as Nanny’s were carrying their charges with them.    The women sand a protest song composed in honour of the occasion (Wathint’Abafazi Wathint’imbokodo) (Now you have touched the women, you have struck a Rock.  In the 54 years since, the phrase has come to represent women’s strength and courage in South Africa.  Since August 9th 1994 the day has been commemorated annually and has since become known as National Womens Day in South Africa.
CELEBRATE WOMEN WITH SOME OF OUR HOTELS
	ERINVALE ESTATE HOTEL & SPA is offering a lovely breakfast as well as a back and neck massage.  This could easily follow on from a day of exploring the wonderful Cape area that these women fought so hard to be part of. MARDOUW COUNTRY HOUSE offers a wonderfully private ambiance and you can take a stroll through the lovely surroundings to enjoy a picnic near the dam under the tree and take in the wonderful country that the women of South Africa love so much.   For more hotels to visit and send your clients to please contact us on info@boutiquetravelmarketing.com
	Celebrate this marked day with all the South African’s and share it with your friends and clients to spread the understanding of how strong a women can be when they believe in something..       “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Quote by Anne Frank
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