President Cyril Ramaphosa, wearing a purple tie and a pink carnation, listens during the National Women's Day commemoration at the Union Buildings on Sunday
Kabul got a bloody nose at the Union Buildings on Sunday, with President Cyril Ramaphosa condemning the exclusion of Afghan women from classrooms, workplaces and public life.
Ramaphosa was delivering the keynote address at the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Women's March, held this year under the theme "empowered women empower nations".
Nobel peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai was the guest of honour and also addressed the commemoration.
Yousafzai was 15 when the Taliban shot her in the head on her school bus in Pakistan's Swat Valley in 2012, for insisting that girls be allowed to go to school.
