Speech by President Nelson Mandela on Women’s Day, Pretoria, 9 August 1996
… history. They declared that women would insist on their role in making history. Then, they vowed to a stubborn … As long as the nation refuses to acknowledge the equal role of more than half of itself, it is doomed to failure. … Our new constitution, in whose drafting women played a key role, commits our society to the equality of women. It is one …