Canny Maphanga  

He states that it is due to the women of South Africa that the country enjoys freedom today.

Ramaphosa was addressing the 2024 Women’s Day Commemoration in Pofadder, Northern Cape today.

“Today, we have our freedom because the women of our country also marched to the Union Buildings on the 9th of August. So, in many ways than one, we, as South Africans, and especially we, the men in South Africa, must say thank you to the women of our country of 1956 who were brave, maybe even braver than us men, who marched against the might of the apartheid state. So, we say thank you! Thank you! …. the women of SA.”
 

This annual public holiday commemorates an eventful day in South Africa’s history where on this day, in 1956, Sophia Williams De Bruyn, Rahima Moosa, Helen Joseph, Lillian Ngoyi and Lilian Diedericks led 20 000 women to the Union Buildings in protest.

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