Today marks our Human Rights Day in South Africa, a day that many died for across this country.
In order to know where we come from we need to remember them.This day is not just about freedom or any protesters, it is about Sharpville in particular and the men who gave their lives on the 21 March 1960, it is about the lives of those who came before and will come after.
This day is about hope and people who chased a dream.
I think many of them knew when they embarked on that march they would not make it through the day but that did not stop them. They had in mind a future where men and women were treated as equal regardless of colour or creed. They wanted their brothers and sisters and their children to know that Freedom could be had.
They offered up their lives so we can live ours without oppression, they are the Heroes of this countries liberation .
Our Human Rights did not come at the hands of a Political Party so lets not make it about that, it came from the hands of men and women who fought tediously so that we may live in this country as equal human beings and not master and slave.
So i salute the men and woman who died before they could themselves live in this freedom that they fought for and i hope that some day our counties leadership can live up to the legacy of our Liberation Heroes.
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