Central SA
No Human Rights Day public celebrations─── MARVIN NTSANE 10:30 Sat, 21 Mar 2020
President Cyril Ramaphosa was expected to make a keynote address during National Human Rights Day celebrations in Colesberg in the Northern Cape today.
This is however no longer the case, as all social gatherings of one hundred people or more are banned in the country in efforts to curb the spread of the current coronavirus pandemic.
National Human Rights Day celebrations started on March 1 and will end on March 31.
This year's celebrations fall under the theme “The year of unity, socio-economic renewal and nation-building”.
The day is historically linked with the events of 21 March 1960 during the Sharpeville uprising.
On the day, sixty-nine people died and one hundred and eighty were wounded when police opened fire on a crowd protesting against the Pass Law.
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