August Lifestyle Women

Greetings!

I have been blessed to be surrounded by women that have a wealth of knowledge relating to fitness, beauty, health, business, family, relationships etc. And through my interactions with them, blog posts appear. If that isn’t magical, I don’t know what is.

In South Africa, August has been recognized as national women’s month, with 09 August 2017 being the day where the actual public holiday falls on. This is to commemorate the women’s march in 1956 that contributed to the Freedom everyone in South Africa enjoys today.

One striking statement from that day I recently read goes:

Many of the African women wore traditional dress, others wore the Congress colours, green, black and gold; Indian women were clothed in white saris. Many women had babies on their backs and some domestic workers brought their white employers’ children along with them. Throughout the demonstration the huge crowd displayed a discipline and dignity that was deeply impressive (Walker 1991:195).

This shows what women united together for a common purpose can accomplish: to see freedom reign the streets of the country they live in. Which we’ve celebrate every year since 1995.

To commemorate this, I will be doing features on some strong women I have come to personally know and love. These aren’t celebrities. Or anyone different from you and I. Their lives are not extraordinary by any of society’s standards – much like the women of 1956; their lives are extraordinary because they carry a passion inside them and their beauty exudes from the inside out. They have set daily targets for themselves and they achieve them. Well, not always :). They have their struggles, and their triumphs. They wear their scars as badges of honour and their passion for what they do really has caught my eye.

I’m doing these features so you also can understand and grasp that you can be great wherever you are. All you have to do is START.