Human Rights reflection of a different kind as COVID-19 keeps South Africans home
The observance of the regulations prohibiting crowds of more than a hundred people led to a low-key Human Rights Day celebration by the PAC in Cape Town.
Eastern Cape Arts and Culture MEC Fezeka Nkomonye-Bayeni has applauded communities for adhering to the government’s precautions proposals aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus. The observance of the regulations prohibiting crowds of more than a hundred people led to a low-key Human Rights Day celebration by the PAC in Cape Town. Party veterans gathered at the venue in Langa where two of its members were killed and dozens wounded by apartheid police 60 years ago, during protests following the Sharpeville massacre earlier on the same day.
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