Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… protests or demonstrations. In the urban areas, the women`s campaigns were primarily organised by the ANC Women`s … focussing exclusively on the pass laws. On August 9, 1956, 20,000 women from all parts of South Africa staged a second … Minister Strijdom, who had been notified of the women`s mission, was not there to receive them. In lieu of a meeting, …