As we commemorate the Human Rights Day, we need to take cognisance of the fact that SA today, is a better place to live in than when 69 unarmed freedom loving black people were killed in 1960 in Sharpeville, On 6 April 1979 Solomon Mahlangu was hanged by the apartheid regime for fighting fascism & black oppression, today that cannot be done, on June 16, 1976, blacks were blown to smithereens by the apartheid junta for protesting against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of expresssion in our schools, today that cannot happen, in 1985, as a result of the Rubicon speech by the then President PW Botha, night vigils in all black areas were restricted to not more than 50 people, today that cannot happen, in 1960, Verwoerd introduced apartheid legislation, a legislation that reduced blacks to semi-human beings or person non grata, today apartheid is no more, in 1985, a State of Emergency was introduced & with it came a curfew banning blacks to be outside of their homesteads from 18h00 to 06h00, those found on the streets were summarily arrested. It is within this background that we must celebrate Human Rights days within the context of the gains made as a result of the incessant struggles waged by the oppressed to ensure that SA becomes a free, non-racial country wherein all people are equal before the law. It is therefore phantasmagoric & a phantasm to argue that SA is worse today as compared to yesterday. We are a better people that continues to make strides of monumental proportions. May u & yr fellow S Africans have a blessed Human Rights Day. Our socio-political challenges are not unique, neither are they insurmountable for our resilience & tenacity far outweighs the odds & victory is inevitable. Happy Human Rights Day. #lolomojela
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:18:19 +0000
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