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NEWS FEATURE: OFM News celebrates #HumanRightsDay─── 11:00 Sun, 21 Mar 2021
Each year Human Rights Day is celebrated on 21 March to commemorate the events that took place in Sharpeville, Gauteng on 21 March 1960.
On that historical day, 69 people had died and 180 were wounded when police fired shots on a peaceful crowd that had gathered in protest against pass laws. According to the South African government's website, www.gov.za, this day marked an affirmation by ordinary people, rising in unison to proclaim their rights.
The date became an iconic and historical date in South Africa’s history that is commemorated today as Human Rights Day, serving as a reminder of our rights and the cost paid for our treasured human rights.
Human rights are basic rights that each person have simply because they are human. It established universal human rights on the basis of humanity, freedom, justice, and peace. South Africa has included permanent human rights in our own Bill of Rights, Chapter 2 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996.
OFM News’ Blaine Jones took to the streets and spoke to people about this historical day.
OFM News/Blaine Jones
