The August Women series celebrates the solidarity of South African sisterhood, in memory of the 9th of August in 1956 when women united in a defiance campaign march on Parliament. The images of dancing, singing women honors the memory of those heroic activists who danced, and continue to dance defiantly in the face of injustice.
Many of those August women did not live to enjoy the freedom they gave their lives for. Many suffered abominably at the hands of the apartheid regime, being brutally assaulted, jailed or exiled. Many lost their families, their income and their homes because of the cruel injustices of apartheid. There is a need not only to acknowledge and honour these foremothers of our free country, but to ensure that future generations will be able to cherish their recorded memory.
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- The August Women.
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- You cannot kill the Spirit.
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- We are not afraid.
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- Veterans of Defiance.
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- Vukani Makhosikazi!
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- For Naomi Setshedi of Phokeng. [detail]
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- Independent women unafraid of speaking out.
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- We are going forward.
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- They remove boulders & cross rivers.
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- Standing together, firm as a rock.
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- Malibongwe ! let the names of the women be praised.
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- For Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge of Umlazi. [detail]
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- For Eva Mokoena of Magopa.
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- For Mam Lydia Kompe of Matlala.
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- For Maki Skosana of Soweto.
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- For Ma K. Ellen Nnoseng Khuzwayo of Soweto.
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- For Ma K. [detail]
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- Leaders of the 1956 March.
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- For Jabu Ndlovu of Pietrmaritzburg. [detail]
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- For Fatima Seedat of Durban.
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- For Elizabeth Tsie of Winburg.
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- For Dulcie September of Athlone, Cape.
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- For Barbara Ribeiro of Mamelodi.
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- Veterans of the Struggle.
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- For Mam Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe of Durban.
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- For Virgina Ngalo of Port Elizabeth.
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- For Ma K of Thaba Ntchu.
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- For Dulcie September of Athlone.