This year we mark the 100th anniversary of the historic women's march, led heroically by Charlotte Maxeke, against the discriminatory pass laws of colonial South Africa, which restricted black people's movements and affected families through the 1913 Natives Land Act. The sad and harsh reality of the 1913 Natives Land Act, the sole objective of which was the dispossession of millions of African people of their land, was succinctly captured by the former secretary-general of the ANC, Sol Plaatjie, in his book Native Life in South Africa, in which he proclaimed, and I quote: