Local news

DA celebrates Human Rights Day at Walter Sisulu Square

One of the most recent visits done by Msimanga was to Protea South where he found the three pensioners, Sara Dhlamini, Aletta Mthembu, and Emily Mohapi who live under harsh conditions.

Members of the DA including the party’s Gauteng Premier Candidate, Solly Msimanga and Kwena Moloto visited Soweto last week where they addressed a Human Rights Day celebration event.

The event was held at the Walter Sisulu Square in Kliptown and saw people coming out in their numbers to pay tribute those who fought for the rights being enjoyed today and hear what the leaders had to say about the future.

The Human Rights Day rally came after Msimanga’s recent visit to various townships in the province where he witnessed injustices that some South African citizens are still going through, 30 years into democracy.

ALSO READ: Pre-Human Rights Day Commemoration held at local school

One of the most recent visits done by Msimanga was to Protea South where he found the three pensioners, Sara Dhlamini, Aletta Mthembu, and Emily Mohapi who live under harsh conditions.

Not having proper housing and other basic amenities is considered a human rights violation and many people in Kliptown, the birth place of the Freedom Charter still face challenges of access to basic services.

“Solomon Mahlangu died so that everyone can enjoy the rights that he and others fought for. Not this inequality where others get to enjoy these rights because they are rich and others are not able to because they are not rich,” said Msimanga.

He further mentioned that human rights are for a collective not for people to be segregated and given those rights because they can pay huge amounts to get them.

ALSO READ: Locals urged to donate blood this Human Rights Day weekend

Francina Makgwai from Dobsonville, one of the residents who attended the event said, “We are constantly losing children to crime and drugs, the education system is in trouble, housing and poverty are our biggest problem and we are overpopulated so our government needs to do better.”

The event reminded residents of the rights that were fought for by the previous generation and how this day gives South Africans a chance to look back on those achievements and try to keep their rights intact.

 

Stay in the know. Download the Caxton Local News Network App here.

Related Articles

Back to top button