DA activists celebrate women
MIDRAND – The group of women also gave out fudge to female shoppers.
Ward 112 Democratic Alliance (DA) activists under the leadership of councillor Madeleine Hicklin, held a Woman’s Day breakfast at Caramello’s restaurant in Blue Hills.
Before the breakfast, the group of women went to Carlswald and Blue Hills shopping centres to give out fudge to female shoppers in celebration of the day.
“It is a day to celebrate and honour the great women upon whose shoulders we stand today,” said Hicklin.
“The 1956 march of 20 000 brave women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria was the first real show of strength by women who stood up against apartheid’s dreadful and degrading segregation laws. These warriors were history makers and we, as South African Women, have great shoes to fill if we are to leave a lasting legacy for our children and grandchildren.”
DA member of parliament Natasha Mazzone was a guest speaker at the event. Speaking to the more than 60 guests who packed the restaurant, Mazzone said she was pleased to see a group of active people who didn’t think Women’s Day was another excuse to laze about, but it was a day to mobilise and strategise about a way forward to save South Africa.
“I was inspired, from a very early age, by the bravery of the women who were imprisoned, beaten, attacked by the police – and yet still stood their ground to make their point against an unjust and reprehensible system,” she said.
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