HumanRightsDay a day to reflect on women's rights - De Lille
JOHANNESBURG - Good leader Patricia de Lille said on Wednesday that on Human Rights Day South Africans had to reflect on the failure of their rights-based democracy to protect women from violence and poverty.
"I am proud to have been amongst those who negotiated a peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy and I am proud to have been amongst those who wrote our Constitution and our Bill of Rights."Fifty-nine years ago, on 21 March 1960, the violent and inhumane apartheid state mowed down 249 people who were peacefully protesting the “Pass Laws” that disenfranchised black South Africans.
"On the 21st March we pause to acknowledge those who sacrificed everything for South Africa to achieve democracy and a Constitution with a Bill of Rights that protects every South African." "On this Human Rights day I make a call to every man and every woman to respect the rights of girls and women and to end this scourge of femicide and violence."
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