’76 Inked!: A Women’s Month Festival Honouring Sibongile Mkhabela, 50 Years After the Soweto Uprising

Seventy years ago, on August 9, 1956, thousands of South African women of all races marched on the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest the extension of pass laws to Black women, a demonstration that would eventually give South Africa its Women’s Day. Nine days before that march, on July 31, 1956, a girl was […]

’76 Inked!: A Women’s Month Festival Honouring Sibongile Mkhabela, 50 Years After the Soweto Uprising
Seventy years ago, on August 9, 1956, thousands of South African women of all races marched on the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest the extension of pass laws to Black women, a demonstration that would eventually give South Africa its Women’s Day. Nine days before that march, on July 31, 1956, a girl was […]