WOMEN RE-ENACT S. A. MARCH

The march drew attention to violence against women. Thousands of women have recreated a historic march through South Africa's capital, Pretoria, 50 years after the landmark anti-apartheid event.
The demonstration is being held to protest at South Africa's rate of domestic violence, which is reckoned to be among the highest in the world.
Political leaders and some women who were on the 1956 march led the rally.
The original action was in protest at a law which forced black people to carry passbooks with them at all times.
Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma were among several women cabinet members who headed Wednesday's re-enactment of the march.
Nelson Mandela's former wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, and his current wife, Graca Machel, were also present.
The BBC's Peter Greste in Johannesburg says 50 years on, women are politically advanced but still struggling with terrible rates of domestic violence.
According to one study, a South African woman dies at the hands of her partner every six hours, while rape and physical and mental abuse are said to be rampant.
The One in Nine campaign - which campaigns against gender violence - used the occasion to argue that the justice system has failed rape victims, including a woman known as Buysizwe who was gang-raped last year.
"For Buyisiwe and countless other women whose rape cases are struck from court rolls due to 'missing or lost' evidence, National Women's Day is no cause for celebration," the campaign said in a statement.

Protesters are using the anniversary of one of the most influential demonstrations against the apartheid regime to highlight the problem.
[It] was a tremendously exciting, inspirational thing
Frene GinwalaFormer South African parliament speakerOn 9 August 1956 thousands of women assembled in Pretoria despite a ban on unauthorised gatherings, eventually coalescing in a 20,000-strong protest outside the Union Buildings, the seat of the South African government.
Many were arrested and prosecuted, but activists say it was the moment which brought women into the anti-apartheid struggle.
"Twenty-thousand women suddenly emerging in Pretoria - the heartland of what was then the National Party domain - was a tremendously exciting, inspirational thing," former speaker of the South African parliament Frene Ginwala, told the BBC.
Earlier this year, Mr Mbeki said a woman should succeed him when he retires in 2009.

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