| Feature
KZN WOMEN INVOLVED IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN STRUGGLE The struggle continues in a different a face
F
or some women, celebrating women's month merely means a holiday, an event there and there and being reminded of women who marched blah blah blah, right? This year it should not be like that at all. With South African women under a dangerous dark cloud where the people they love the most and trust the most have become the ones they should be afraid of the most. As women, we are at a crossroad. It's a red pill or blue pill situation. It might not be about pass laws but we are in a struggle. Our struggle is different. Our struggle is about inequality, protections, the same platform as the other gender, recognition and opportunity. Now we have a choice, we either put our heads in the sand and hope all will be better, maybe sooner or later we are going to get what we want, OR we can stand up and use the God-given strength we possess. We know we have it in us because we are a product of strong women, women who fought for the right to a voice, women who fought for a right to choose, who fought for the right to an opinion, women who fought for an option to seat on the highest seat in the boardroom or to become homemakers by choice. As talk of South Africa's ď€ rst woman president gets louder, please remember these KwaZulu-Natal women who fought in the struggle, some of them you have never heard of but they are part of the reason you have choices today.
10 | Aug-Sept ‘17 | www.beadsmag.co.za
