After spending months in one of the country's most notorious prisons, my mother's family never addressed how the experience affected her. With years of suppressed anger and disappointment, she explains how being afforded the opportunity to talk about her trauma could have helped her healing process. As a young South African living in the country she fought for, I've learned to appreciate the importance of speaking up as a right I should exercise without censorship.
This article is part of a series of reflections from Young Maverick writers about what Human Rights Day (March 21) means to them.
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