File photo: University of Stellenbosch students embark on a Start Letting Us Talk (SLUT) march during International Women’s Day commemoration on March 07, 2017 in Stellenbosch, South Africa. (Photo by Jaco Marais/Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images)
“You strike a woman, you strike a rock”. This powerful phrase was chanted by brave South African women of all races who, in 1956, refused to accept plans to extend the apartheid era pass laws to women.
When one considers what it means…
