South Africans on Human Rights Day

Publisher:
SABC
Publication Date:
20 March 2017
Tags:
South Africa, Human Rights

Human Rights Day in South Africa is linked with 21 March 1960, and the events of Sharpeville. On that day 69 people died and 180 were wounded when police fired on a peaceful crowd that had gathered to protest against the Pass laws. It was more than a protest against the Pass Laws of the apartheid regime. It was an affirmation by common people, rising in unison to proclaim their rights, and it became an iconic date in our country's troubled history.

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