Multicoloured poster. Artwork of African women behind barbed wire. Commemorating the 9th August 1956 when 20,000 women marched to Pretoria to protest against the pass laws.
Archive record
Now that you have touched the women, you have struck a rock you have dislodged a boulder you will be crushed

- Origin date
- 0000-10-03
- Updated
- 27 Aug 2019

South African History Online. (2016, February 22). Now that you have touched the women, you have struck a rock you have dislodged a boulder you will be crushed . South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0116675
South African History Online (2016) ' Now that you have touched the women, you have struck a rock you have dislodged a boulder you will be crushed ', South African History Online, 22 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0116675 (Accessed: 5 August 2026).
South African History Online, Now that you have touched the women, you have struck a rock you have dislodged a boulder you will be crushed [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0116675, (accessed 5 August 2026).
" Now that you have touched the women, you have struck a rock you have dislodged a boulder you will be crushed ." South African History Online, 22 Feb. 2016, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0116675. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.
South African History Online. " Now that you have touched the women, you have struck a rock you have dislodged a boulder you will be crushed ." South African History Online. February 22, 2016. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0116675.
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