00:00South Africa on Sunday will commemorate 70 years since the 1956 Women's March.
00:07Thousands of women of all races marched to Pretoria to protest anti-apartheid laws
00:13that forced black women to carry passes, restricting their movement.
00:19Remni Dinat helped her mother prepare for the rally.
00:22Everybody had to play a part.
00:24To organize it wasn't easy.
00:26You had to go from door to door, knock on the door and tell the women,
00:31come out on the march.
00:33It's very important.
00:34Men are carrying passes and now they want to introduce passes to women,
00:39to African women.
00:41And so we had to march there and petitions were out.
00:48We had to take the petitions to door to door and ask people to sign.
00:52They say we will not carry passes.
00:55No matter what, we will not do that.
00:58Seven decades on, South African women say they're still feeling the effects
01:03and reaping the benefits of that moment of unity and defiance against the apartheid regime.
01:11As a South African woman, women's day to me, it means, you know, freedom.
01:17You know, it means strength.
01:19It means, you know, resilience.
01:22Because as of today, for what the women previously have done, they've paved the way for us,
01:29you know, to be able to be ourselves, to be able to do what we wish to do.
01:34You know, I mean, today I'm the first black South African woman to ever compete,
01:39you know, in four major tennis tournaments.
01:43Johannesburg's women's jail was a cornerstone of the apartheid system.
01:47It's now a museum, but many women say they still aren't free.
01:51It's a different monster which precludes us from enjoying freedom of movement and economic participation.
02:01And that's gender-based violence.
02:04That's crime.
02:04That's an environment where if you want to go jog at six o'clock and it's a bit dark, you'd
02:10rather not.
02:11And so they fought so hard for us to be able to move freely.
02:15And we still aren't.
02:16We just have different chains on us.
02:18As they celebrate the achievements of their mothers 70 years ago,
02:23South African women say their fight for freedom is unfinished.
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