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 CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Thousands of women marked the 50th anniversary of a famed anti-apartheid demonstration with celebrations Wednesday soured by the reality that poverty, AIDS and crime have replaced political oppression as the scourge of South Africa.
Commemorations across the country honored the 20,000 women who marched on the headquarters of the white-minority government in 1956 to protest the hated pass laws that restricted the movement of nonwhites under apartheid's racial separation system.
"We regard Aug. 9 as a celebration of victory over apartheid," said Sophia Williams de Bruyn, one of the organizers of the original march.
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