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21 March 1960 is one of the most important and a remarkable event to the South Africans, particularly to the people in Sharpeville BUT is it really only about the Sharpvillers???Read more.
Early on 1960 ANC and PAC organised their members to prepare themselves for a proposed nationwide because on 16 December 1959, the President General of ANC, “Chief Albert Luthuli announced that 1960 was going to be the Year of the Pass” 21 March 1960.
I was surprised to hear in the news that people in Sharpeville were complaining that Human Rights Day is all about what happened in Sharpeville. The argument was that Human Rights Day should not be celebrated in Kliptown, Soweto and that President Jacob Zuma was not adhering to their concerns Sharpeville. For moment I was so much baffled with their actions that why on earth they would do such a thing instead of looking forward to the future and start making a change within their society.
Human Rights Day is about coming together as a nation to build a unified, free and fair nation not about protesting, burning tyres and burning other people’s properties. According to COPE president Mosiuoa Lekota,” political parties had a duty to educate South Africans on the fact that human rights were not about the Sharpeville and Langa Massacre and make the society aware that it is of high importance not to take the human rights for granted” Lekota.
From a public relations perspective is important to know your history but we need to adapt and learn new ways of adhering to the environment we find ourselves in-we need to seek ways of educating our nation about what it means to have a right to life, equality before the law, human dignity, freedom and security of person, freedom to slavery, servitude or forced labour Rights for all.
South African citizens need to be taught that not everything is about violence and that messages can be transmitted without having to burn tyres or without having to protest and organising riots-Rights go hand in clove with Responsibilities so let us learn from what happened on the 21st of March 1960 that we need not to repeat history but reshape and convert our nation. Therefore HUMAN RIGHTS DAY IS NOT ALL ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN SHARPEVILLE it’s ABOUT SOUTH AFRICANS COMING TOGETHER AS A NATION AND LOOKING FORWARD TO THE FUTURE!!! Enjoy your rights safely and contently.
I was surprised to hear in the news that people in Sharpeville were complaining that Human Rights Day is all about what happened in Sharpeville. The argument was that Human Rights Day should not be celebrated in Kliptown, Soweto and that President Jacob Zuma was not adhering to their concerns Sharpeville. For moment I was so much baffled with their actions that why on earth they would do such a thing instead of looking forward to the future and start making a change within their society.
Human Rights Day is about coming together as a nation to build a unified, free and fair nation not about protesting, burning tyres and burning other people’s properties. According to COPE president Mosiuoa Lekota,” political parties had a duty to educate South Africans on the fact that human rights were not about the Sharpeville and Langa Massacre and make the society aware that it is of high importance not to take the human rights for granted” Lekota.
From a public relations perspective is important to know your history but we need to adapt and learn new ways of adhering to the environment we find ourselves in-we need to seek ways of educating our nation about what it means to have a right to life, equality before the law, human dignity, freedom and security of person, freedom to slavery, servitude or forced labour Rights for all.
South African citizens need to be taught that not everything is about violence and that messages can be transmitted without having to burn tyres or without having to protest and organising riots-Rights go hand in clove with Responsibilities so let us learn from what happened on the 21st of March 1960 that we need not to repeat history but reshape and convert our nation. Therefore HUMAN RIGHTS DAY IS NOT ALL ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN SHARPEVILLE it’s ABOUT SOUTH AFRICANS COMING TOGETHER AS A NATION AND LOOKING FORWARD TO THE FUTURE!!! Enjoy your rights safely and contently.
guys lets us embrance change
ReplyDeleteof course change is good but remember in public relations we need to scan change before we could make any moves.
Deletehuman rights freed us from the apartheid era,we thank God for that,but now we have to foucs on the future not the past.As the country we need to move on by adapting and adjuting to the changes around our country.Sharpville will always be the place that live a good mark in our lives.
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