August 9 South Africa Women's Day

South Africa Women's Day is different from the time of International Women's Day. August 9, 1956, hundreds of black women in Pretoria held demonstrations and protest against the implementation of the apartheid "pass laws." The new Government of South Africa this day as Women's Day, to commemorate South Africa in the fight for equality of women's contribution in the struggle, and this day as a national public holiday. Since then, the annual August 9, the South African women have held all over the various forms of celebration activities to achieve gender equality and end partisan conflict and violence, and ensure the survival of women rights and against sexual harassment and sexual offences, to remove the old apartheid in South Africa System caused by the deep-rooted discrimination against women.

South African Women's Day is not common on March 8, but on August 9 to commemorate the August 9, 1956 the South African women's organizations, a resistance action.