Drum Magazine social history photographs, South Africa edition 2347

Anti-Pass Campaign – On August 9, 1956, 20 000 women of all races, some with babies on their backs, from the cities and towns, from reserves and villages, took a petition addressed to the Prime Minister to the Union Buildings in Pretoria. He was not in. The petition demanded of Strijdom that the pass laws be abolished. Lillian Ngoyi, Helen Joseph, Sophie Williams and Radima Moosa – the delegates to deliver the petition to the office of the Prime Minister – in front of the Union Buildings.