Staff writer THE 15th annual Women’s Humanity Arts Festival will commemorate the 150th anniversary of freedom hero Charlotte Maxeke’s birth, recognising her as an inspiration and trailblazer.
The Artscape Theatre will once again celebrate National Women’s Day with the annual festival, envisaged as a hybrid stage and online event, adhering to disaster regulations.
The theme of this year’s festival is The Year of Charlotte Maxeke, who was a leader and activist, one of the first black women graduates in South Africa and one of the first black South Africans to fight for freedom from exploitative and social conditions of African women.
As an early opponent of passes for black women, Maxeke also helped organise the first major anti-pass march in Bloemfontein in 1913.
Artscape chief executive Marlene le Roux said…
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Cape Times (Digital) - 1 Issue, 2021-07-28