I hope you all had a wonderful long weekend and that your sons spoilt the women in their lives on Tuesday, National Women’s Day.
This morning we gathered in the Jagger Hall to celebrate National Women’s Day and honour all the women on our Prep campus who play such an important role in our lives. Mr Brown explained the history of Women’s Day to the boys and told them that on August 9, 1956, there was a staged march on the Union Buildings of Pretoria. Over 20 000 women of all races attended the march in order to protest against the Urban Areas Act of 1950 amendments. The law required all South Africans defined as “black” to carry an internal passport that served to maintain segregation, control urbanization, and manage migrant labour during apartheid. The day wasn’t actually made a holiday until 1995.
Three Gr 7s introduced  some amazing, inspirational,  modern day South African women to the boys.

• Thando Biko spoke very fondly of his grandma, Dr Mamphele Ramphele – a South African politician, an activist against Apartheid, a medical doctor, an academic and businesswoman. She was the first woman to hold the Vice-Chancellor post at a South African university. He also shared this quote of hers:

Attitudes toward other creatures is conditioned by one’s level of security with the universe.

• Luc Bestel, our Swimming Captain, told us why Natalie Du Toit is an inspiration to him. After losing her leg in an accident, Natalie used all her energy to start swimming again and was the first woman with a disability to make a final of an able-bodied swimming event at the Commonwealth Games. He also shared this quote of Natalie’s:

Even when bad things happen, you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

• Jude Khoury’s most inspirational woman in his life is his mom. She juggles so many commitments and responsibilities, deals with so much, while getting everything done, too.

Even though women deserve to be celebrated every day, National Women’s Day gives you more reason to do so. The essence of Women’s Day is to acknowledge the importance of women in society, and shower on them the respect and love they are deprived of, very often.
It’s a holiday that puts the spotlight on women’s achievements, accomplishments and contributions, tries to shine a light on women’s issues, and emboldens the need to advocate and speak up for gender equality and empowerment.

Wishing a very happy Woman’s Day to strong, intelligent, talented and simply wonderful women of this world! Don’t ever forget that you are loved and appreciated.

Kind regards

CHRIS GROOM

DEPUTY HEADMASTER

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