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A number of Women's Day celebrations are expected to take place across the country on Saturday.
President Jacob Zuma will celebrate the day at King Zwelithini Stadium in Umlazi, Durban, while Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille is expected to lead a child maintenance march in Gelvandale, Port Elizabeth.
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema is due to speak at a celebration in Brandfort, Free State.
And, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela is set to speak at a celebration in Polokwane, Limpopo.
On this day in 1956, around 20-thousand women participated in a national march to protest against pass law legislation, which required non-white South Africans to carry a document on them to prove that they were allowed to enter white areas.
Women of all races and ages from all corners of the country marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
