Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… Union Building with a petition to the then prime minister Strijdom, who snubbed them, and to which the women responded … beforehand, was planned for 9 August 1956, and Strijdom was notified, in advance, that he should be … outside his office. Yes, the 'Lion of the North', as Strijdom was called, had lost his courage to face this army …