For Immediate Release
Date: 21 March 2021
RE: *Human Rights Day* *remains a play of smoke and mirrors for poor* *masses of SA*
The RET Champain rejects Human Rights day and any celebration of human rights but opt to remember and commomerate the people who protested and died at Sharpville.
We as the RET will always bare in mind that Freedom is not free but was paid for in full with blood.
After a day of demonstrations against pass laws, a crowd of about 7,000 protesters went to the police station. The South African Police opened fire on the crowd, killing 69 people and injuring 180 others.
There were 249 casualties in total, including 29 children. Many were shot in the back as they fled.
In present-day South Africa, 21 March is celebrated as a public holiday in honour of human rights and to commemorate the Sharpeville massacre.
Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world, from birth until death. ... These basic rights are based on shared values like dignity, fairness, equality, respect and independence. These values are defined and protected by law.
Thus it would be befitting to dedicate a day acknowledging those rights.
But the question arises what are we actually celebrating?
But as we advocate for human dignity not through rhetoric but the implementation of Nesrec Resolutions.
One of the corner stone of attaining human rights is being economically free.
We as the RET Champion will continue to uphold and fight for that right as it's in our belief that rights without justice and the restotation of human dignity are just hollow and void words.
Celebrating human rights when our land, mineral wealth is still in the hands of the oppressor.
The cornerstone of a basic right of African man is the right to land and after 26 years the ANC has failed to restore that one right.
What then are we celebrating today?
It leaves a bad taste in one's mouth when you contemplate that Sharville massacre occured due to police brutality as police shot at unarmed Black people protesting for thier rights.
It's even more difficult to grasp that the situation has not changed.
South African Police are still brutalizing Black people.
It is clear that we inherited systemic problem with the integration of the policing service of the Apartheid regime.
The continued extent and nature of police brutality can't be ingored and has escalated in this past year.
Many have died in protests and in homes but government has not accounted for it and the ANC continues to keep mum.
The South African Police deplorable acts have been directed to Black people and are either seen taking pics with European descendants or dancing with them. While they kill us.
Such irony that we can even consider celebrating this scam of a holiday rather we remember the people of Sharpville and recently we remember Mthokozisi Ntumba whose obvious sin was color of his skin, then talk about our rights as Black people.
We have no rights furthermore the draconian nonsensical laws of Lockdowns has stripped us of all those rights that we might have thought we had.
So again we as the RET reiterate what are we celebrating.
The ANC continues to drag thier feet in implementing Nesrec Resolutions which are the ones that can give is that basic human right as Afrcan people.
As for today we chose to remember the thousands of Black people who risked all others paid for with thier lives.
We will never forget the people of Sharpville!
Issued by
RET Champion
Nkosentsha Shezi
National Chairperson
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