1956 March: “You strike a woman, you strike a rock”
By Kouthar Sambo "You strike a woman, you strike a rock." These words are derived from the iconic 1956 march on 9 August where over 20,000 women from various ethnicities marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to hand over a petition to the former South African Prime Minister Hans (JG) Strijdom in their fight against the Apartheid era. The phrase symbolizes women's strength and became the lifeblood of the nurturing […]
