A United Nations Women-supported study in 2024 found more than one in three South African women have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetime. Black women, women of Indian heritage like Naidoo, and even some white women marched that day. “Black women were organizing, and Indian women couldn’t be silent,” Dinart told The Associated Press, adding that nobody at the time imagined that “history would remember that day.” A jail that has turned into a museumPerched on a ridge overlooking central Johannesburg, the Women’s Jail was a cornerstone of South Africa’s apartheid prison system. “Today I’m the first Black South African woman to compete in all four major tennis tournaments,” she told the AP.