12 BIG LESSONS FROM SOME OF SA’S MOST INSPIRING WOMEN

SME South Africa continues to be fortunate enough to bear witness to the impressive efforts of women entrepreneurs who are not only successfully building innovative businesses that employ thousands, but are also leading the way for the future of female entrepreneurship on the African continent.

In 12 captivating quotes from inspirational businesswomen, role models and activists​, we pay tribute to women entrepreneurship, leadership and success.

https://smesouthafrica.co.za/12-lessons-weve-taken-from-some-of-sas-most-inspiring-women-quotes-to-kick-off-womensmonth2018/

Women to Celebrate: 10 Inspiring South African Women

This month we celebrate the many inspiring South African women and the changes that they have enabled. These ten strong, courageous women are shining beacons; making a difference in their fields and opening up new doors for other women to step through.

https://www.sacap.edu.za/blog/management-leadership/women-to-celebrate-10-inspiring-south-african-women/

Significance

National Women’s Day draws attention to significant issues African women still face, such as parenting, domestic violence, sexual harassment in the workplace, pornography, unequal pay, and schooling for all girls. It can be used as a day to fight for or protest these ideas.^[8] Due to this public holiday, there have been many significant advances. Before 1994, women had low representation in the Parliament, only at 2.7%. Women in the national assembly were at 27.7%. This number has nearly doubled, being at 48% representation throughout the country’s government.^[9] National Women’s Day is based around much of the same principles as International Women’s Day, and strives for much of the same freedoms and rights.

Below are 10 qualities that define mentally strong women. These traits include being self confident, productive, optimistic, a go-getter, a fear-tackler, caring, unafraid to stand up for what one believes in, proud, unbothered by what others say or think, and true to one’s self.

10 Characteristics of Mentally Strong Women

https://discoverymood.com/blog/characteristics-of-mentally-strong-women/#

National Women’s Day (Zulu: Usuku Lwabesifazane, Afrikaans: Nasionale Vrouedag) is a South African public holiday celebrated annually on 9 August. The day commemorates the 1956 march of approximately 20,000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to petition against the country’s pass laws that required South Africans defined as “black” under The Population Registration Act to carry an internal passport, known as a passbook, that served to maintain population segregation, control urbanisation, and manage migrant labour during the apartheid era.^[1] The first National Women’s Day was celebrated on 9 August 1995.^[2] In 2006, a reenactment of the march was staged for its 50th anniversary, with many of the 1956 march veterans.

HISTORY OF NATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Read more: https://nationaltoday.com/national-womens-day/