Please take the time to invite all your friends on Facebook. Click on the picture below and it will take you to the invite page where you can click the invite tab and select all your friends. Join us after the Human Rights Day Rally for an interactive discussion with input from civil activists who will expose how and why the rights of South African citizens have been infringed by the introduction of e-tolls. How to raise your moral courage, be an active citizen and know your rights. Memorandums will be handed to the office of the Minister of Transport. Be an active citizen and join us for 2 hours on Human Rights Day. Free anti e-toll bumper stickers for all attendees. Keynote Speaker: Professor Samadoda Fikile Other Speakers: Zwelinzima Vavi, Wayne Duvenage, Mark Heywood, Howard Dembovski & John Clarke. Program of events will be as follows on Friday 21st March 2014 at the Regina Mundi Catholic Church in Mkize Street – Soweto. • 10h00 - 11h00: A Media Conference (closed to invited media) • 11h00 – 12h15: Public Interactive Session with Key Note Speaker, Professor Somadoda Fikeni. Other short highlight speakers. • 12h15 – Handover of Memorandum to the office of the Minister of Transport. • 13h00 – Bungi Jump for Human Rights and festivities at the Orlando Towers. The significance of Regina Mundi and the Human Rights Day Shout Out against e-tolls. Regina Mundi played a pivotal role in the struggle against apartheid in the second half of the 20th century. Since political meetings in most public places were banned, the church became the main place where Soweto people could meet and discuss. Even funerals often ended up as political meetings. For this reason, Regina Mundi earned the reputation of being one of the main centres of anti-apartheid activism in the province of Gauteng. During the Soweto uprising of June 16, 1976, when students were shot by the police in Orlando West (with Hector Pieterson and others being killed), many demonstrants fled to Regina Mundi. The police entered the church, firing live ammunition. No one was killed, although many were injured and the church itself, as well as its furniture, decorations, and symbols were damaged. Both the interior and the external walls of the church still bear the signs of the shootings. After the end of apartheid, from 1995 to 1998, several meetings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission were held in the church, presided over by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. From 1995 on, funds were raised to restore the church. The campaign eventually collected 1.5 million rands, and restorations were made. The events of 1976 are commemorated by a dedicated ceremony held in the church every year on June 16.
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