There is no question that the challenges young women face today are different to the challenges women faced decades ago. But when we look back at the women during apartheid, and in particular the more than 20,000 South African women of all races who staged a march in 1956, protesting against the proposed amendments to the Urban Areas Act of 1950, we look at them with admiration for their strength. But are we as a society supportive of young women activists today?
Ntokozo Yingwana is a Researcher and PhD Candidate with the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) at the University of Witwatersrand.