Hundreds of tough broads took to the streets of Johannesburg today to show solidarity with a woman who was sexually assaulted for wearing a miniskirt.

The women marched to the taxi line where Nwabisa Ngcukana, 25, was groped and beaten last month by a nasty group of cab drivers and passersby, who said she was dressed too provocatively.

At the taxi rank the groups clashed, with some of the women baring their breasts in defiance and some of the cabbies hurling insults like "prostitute." Nonhlanhla Mokeona, a protester with the group People Opposing Women Abuse, said, "What we want to highlight is that women have rights - they have the right to choose what to wear."

Last week, South Africa's National House of Traditional Leaders, its highest council of tribal and community elders, said that women often wore short skirts in traditional ceremonies. Not that it should matter, but it helps.