ANC veterans welcome Glenlivet apology over controversial advert linking freedom fighters to whisky
The company behind the advert, The Glenlivet, ran a Women’s Month marketing campaign to promote its range of whiskies, but the social media campaign sparked widespread criticism.
Linking De Bruyn to 18-year-old whisky While the advert featured other female veterans, it linked De Bruyn to the 18-year-old variant of the whisky.
That social media ad demonstrated a complete disregard for the history of our struggle, of the bravery not only of comrade Sophie, as our ANC veteran, but of all the women who took part in the historic 1956 march against pass laws.
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