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ANC NATIONAL CHAIRPERSON BALEKA MBETE LAUNCHES THE INAUGURAL WOMEN’S MARCH LECTURE & DIALOGUE
The City of Joburg and the wRite associates conclude the National Women’s Month by launching the annual Women’s March Lecture & Dialogue on 30th August 2011 at the Museum Africa, Newtown Cultural Precinct, Johannesburg.
Baleka Mbete, Chairperson of the African National Congress and former Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, will be delivering the main Women’s March Lecture. She will thereafter be joined in discussion by Lauretta Ngobo, veteran author, activist and former parliamentarian as well as others still to be confirmed.
The aims of the Women’s March Lecture and Dialogue”, said City of Joburg Executive Mayor, Cllr Parks Tau, “are to demonstrate that, even with all the very wonderful strides covered up our present day democracy and freedom, more can and must still be done to really deepen and broaden our achievements and, indeed, how the gains we enjoy today can be further defended and advanced.
As the City of Joburg, Executive Mayor Tau continued, through our partnership with the wRite associates, we commit ourselves to to grow the project to become one of the most sought-after and celebrated event of the Women’s Month on an annual basis.
The 9th August marked the 55th anniversary of the 1956 march led by women leaders such as the late Albertinah Sisulu, Helen Joseph, Lillian Ngoyi, Amina Cachalia, and Sophia-Williams de Bruyn. This was to protest against the proposed amendments to the Urban Areas Act of 1950, extending the hated oppressive pass laws to African women.
According to the wRite associates’ Sindiswa and Raks Seakhoa, “the Women’s March Lecture is inspired by the many and varied total emancipatory struggles by women in South Africa and other parts of the world that had brought about not only the overthrow of oppressive regimes, but instilled in progressive governments equality consciences, policies and other protocols of fairness across all societal spectra”.
South African liberation struggles – as led by women - date back centuries, the most popular and epoch-turning one being August the 9th 1956, arguably the most representative of South Africa’s racial and class divides united against racial discrimination and capitalist exploitation, they concluded.
For more information or further details, please call 011-791 3585 or email info@writeassociates.co.za
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