JOHANNESBURG - From a protest calling for the country's President to step down to a court case seeking to declare power outages unconstitutional it's all in the Bill of Rights. Happy Human Rights Day, South Africa!
This day seeks to remind citizens that the freedoms we enjoy were achieved after many decades of bitter struggle.
From a protest calling for the country's President to step down to a court case seeking to declare power outages unconstitutional, it's all in the Bill of Rights. Happy Human Rights Day, South Africa. #eNCA #DStv403 pic.twitter.com/QtRahRWGad
— eNCA (@eNCA) March 21, 2023
On this day in 1960, 69 people protesting peacefully in Sharpeville, were killed by apartheid police.
That tragedy came to be known as the Sharpeville massacre.
It starkly exposed the government of the day’s deliberate violation of human rights to the world.
On Monday, President Cyril Ramaphosa called on citizens to defend those hard-won freedoms.