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On 9 August 2014 South Africa will celebrate Woman’s Day. The theme for this year’s event is “Celebrating 60th Anniversary of Women’s Charter and 20 Years of Freedom: Together moving a non-racial, non-sexiest South Africa” Women’s Day 2014 will be celebrated in the King Zwelithini Stadium un Umlazi, eThekwini (Durban) where President Jacob Zuma will deliver the keynote address. Women’s Day marks the anniversary of the great women’s march of 1956 to protest against the carrying of pass books. On 9 August 1956, about 20 000 women marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest against legislation aimed at tightening the apartheid government’s control over the movement of black women in urban areas.
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