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A Pink Protea for Women's Day SA

8/9/2020

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A pink protea - a strong and beautiful flower - for Women's Day in South Africa today, 9th August.

On this day in 1956, more than 20,000 South African women of all races staged a march on the Union Buildings in Pretoria in protest against the 'pass laws' that required South Africans defined as 'black' to carry a pass as part of the enforcement of racial segregation, the control of urbanization, and the management of migrant labour during the apartheid era.

The women stood silently for 30 minutes and then started singing a protest song that was composed in honour of the occasion: Wathint'Abafazi Wathint'imbokodo! (Now you have touched the women, you have struck a rock.).
In the years since, its latest incarnation: 'you strike a woman, you strike a rock', has come to represent
​women's courage and strength in South Africa.

National Women's Day draws attention to significant issues African women still face, such as domestic violence, sexual harassment in the workplace, unequal pay, and schooling for all girls. It based around much of the same principles as International Women's Day, and strives for many of the same freedoms and rights.

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2 Comments
Mary
8/13/2020 10:56:08 pm

Solly, this is gorgeous! I've ordered my supplies to begin my journey with scratchboard art and I've be perusing all the websites of scratch artists I can find. I'm glad I found yours!

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Solly
8/14/2020 05:19:13 pm

Thanks so much, Mary! Good luck on your scratchboard journey. I hope you find it as absorbing and rewarding as I have.

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    I started my 'journey' with Scraperboard or Scratchboard Art in 1968. Since then I have been working exclusively in this medium.

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