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As South Africa celebrates Human Rights Day on Tuesday, 21 March, former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela said the Economic Freedom Fighters nationwide shutdown is a reminder of how far the country has come.
was speaking to The Citizen about the red berets protest and the significance of Human Rights Day in the history of South Africa.She said the national shutdown was a clear indication that South Africans can longer be afraid when people are marching. “Justice Albie Sachs said recently, ‘we don’t have the society we fought for yet, but we do have the country we fought for.’
“What happened yesterday shows that we no longer can be afraid when people are marching because the state is going to mow them down as happened in Sharpeville in the 60’s where sixty-nine people were killed,” Madonsela said.
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