09/08/2021
We hope you had a wonderful Womenâs Day! Weâre all about celebrating women in creative industries this and right now weâre loving Capitecâs latest female-focused creative campaign: âŚ
Only 9% of the world's currency features women. says they want to change that. This Womenâs Month, theyâre âReimagining the Randâ by partnering with top artists to design what SAâs first banknote portraying remarkable women could look like.
Their first suggestion features the 4 prolific women who led the march to the Union Buildings on the 9th of August 1956 and introduced the now popular struggle anthem, âWathintâAbafazi, wathintâimbokodoâ.
Created by artist Anja , she explained the significance that the women of â56 still hold in her own Womenâs Day caption below:
âA blessed and safe womenâs day to all. For those who didnât know this day commemorates the day, 9th of August 1956, that 20 000 women from all over the country marched on the Union Buildings in Pretoria to oppose legislation that would make it mandatory for Black women to carry passes in non-Black group areas. Carrying hundreds of thousands of signatures Raheema Moosa, Lilian Ngoyi, Helen Joseph and Sophia Williams lead the march. Prime minister of the day JG Strijdom wouldnât even meet them. The petitions were left at his door and the women stood, for 30 minutes in complete, devastating silence. Then, for the first time they sang âWathint Abafazi, Wathint Imbokodoâ - now that you have touched the women, you have struck a rock. While apparently the petitions were thrown out like trash before the minister even returned to office, this moment caused great societal pressure for these draconian laws to be abolished. We have come far, but not far enough. Today the fight against gender based violence unites the intersection of women and the LGBTQI+ community against domestic, sexual and intimate partner violence and hate crimes which proliferate at pandemic proportions. Aluta continua đłď¸âđđłď¸ââ§ď¸đ´đżđŚâ