The women’s march of 09th August, 1956 in South Africa, changed the regime’s perspective of women in the country.

A mass of women descended on South Africa’s seat of government in Pretoria to voice their concerns, about repressive laws existing in the country, to the then Prime Minister Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom. Though he wasn’t there on the day to receive the petition from almost 20,000 women, a clear message about the power of women was made!

One of the four leaders of the march was Sophia Williams de Bryn.