Speaker, I move without notice:
That the House - 1) notes that South African women played a central role in the struggle for freedom from as early as 1913, when scores of women took part in the anti-pass campaign of 1913 - 1919 and were imprisoned in the old Kroonstad Women's Prison, which became the national prison for women freedom fighters, and were later moved to the new Kroonstad Prison where women like Dorothy Nyembe, Thandi Modise and others were incarcerated;
2) further notes that they were frogmarched by police on horseback from different towns in the Free State to the Kroonstad Women's Prison, where they were detained in communal and single cells and also in solitary confinement for extended periods of time;
3) acknowledges the perseverance and tenacity of these women prisoners, who braved the horrific conditions in the old Kroonstad Women's Prison until finally the Free State administration gave in to their demands and scrapped the pass laws in 1919;
4) recognises the central role that South African women played in the painful history and century-long, difficult struggle for freedom and democracy in our motherland; and
5) agrees that the Kroonstad Prison, where women were incarcerated for their uprising against unjust pass laws and other discriminatory regulations and laws, should - just like the Robben Island prison - be declared a national monument.
Agreed to.