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This month in history

The 1956 Women’s March

On 9 August 1956, some 20 000 women from across the country, some from as far afield as Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, filled the amphitheatre of the Union Buildings in Pretoria to present signed petitions opposing the apartheid law that compelled African women to carry passes.

Phiri’s musical ends

The death of musical legend Ray “Chikapa” Phiri has left the music industry poorer.

Ray “Chikapa” Phiri was born in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, in 1947 and started his music career in the late 1960s as a guitarist. He founded a group called The Cannibals, followed by the more well-known Stimela.

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