Women’s Month pays tribute to the more than 20 000 women who marched to the Union Buildings on 9 August 1956, in protest against the extension of Pass Laws to women.
These brave women fought for their rights and freedom and are celebrated on 9 August, which was declared Women's Day.
This has seen many women in the country, in both the public and private sectors, rise to high levels of management and leadership and occupy positions they were previously not allowed to. She owns Dijo Tse Porche Ltd, a cooking business, and LA Arrow Technologies Ltd, an information technology business.
She started the cooperative in 2012, when she gathered unemployed women and youth and started teaching them how to sew, crochet, bead and knit. “Back in the day, people with disabilities were not given opportunities to study, but now more opportunities are open for people living with disabilities,” she says.
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