South Africa how I love this country, today we celebrate Human
Rights Day.
Being a Sowetan (Sowetan a person born – living in Soweto), I’m just a bit more sentimental about these
type of things.
Let’s go back a bit…
Today we call the Public Holiday as Human Rights Day,
however it used to be called Sharpville Massacre.. and a massacre it was.
On the 21st of March 1968 a crowd of 5 000 to 10
000 peacefully marched to surrender themselves to their local Sharpville police
station offering themselves up for arrest for not carrying their passbooks. I won't go too deep here as just typing is just making me furious.
Through the locomotion people got killed the total toll was 69
people were killed, including 8 women and 10 children, and 180 injured,
including 31 women and 19 children. Many were shot in the back as they turned
to flee, causing some to be paralyzed.
Since then apartheid has since been burned however the
wounds of the past will forever be engraved with our hearts. Apartheid was such a bad time for South Africa and some may
have forgiven however we will never forget.
Fast forward to today Human Rights, Do you know your rights,
like really know them???
Human rights are rights that everyone should have simply
because they are human.
These are some rights taken from the South African governmental
site, rights include:
- Equality
– everyone is equal before the law and has the right to equal protection
and benefit of the law.
- Human
dignity – everyone has inherent dignity and have their dignity respected
and protected.
- Freedom
of movement and residence – everyone has a right to freedom of movement
and to reside anywhere in the country.
- Language
and culture – everyone has the right to use the language and to
participate in the cultural life of their choice.
- Life - everyone has the right to life.
I won’t make this post to be extra long, however I do want
to say that doing posts like these really make me happy.
In Out & Around Soweto (more than just a beauty blog).
xxx
Zanele
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