Human Rights Day should be called Sharpeville Day: Malema

Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema says Human Rights Day should be called Sharpeville Day. Malema was addressing the community of Sharpeville, as the country remembers all those who died for the country’s freedom.

Fifty nine-years ago, 69 people lost their lives when they raised their dissatisfaction with the apartheid government’s system of pass laws.

Malema says this day be commemorated as the day when the Pan Africanist Congress fought for the rights of black people.

“Today is not a Human Rights Day, today is a Sharpeville Day. Today is the day we are fighting for the rights of black people, we must not make any apology about that. This nonsense of non-racialism that they are spreading in defence of white privilege, we are not part of that nonsense, today is the day of the rights of black people. “

CIC @Julius_S_Malema told the crowds at Dlomo Dam in Sharpeville, who came to commemorate our people, murdered by the apartheid government that:

In the EFF we know our Leaders. They remain unsung heroes.#EFFSharpevilleDay pic.twitter.com/zmufQWfh1H

— Economic Freedom Fighters (@EFFSouthAfrica) March 21, 2019

Today we chose Sharpeville to Remember against Forgetting.

To remind ourselves of the fundamentals of our Revolution; Land being CENTRAL.#EFFSharpevilleDay pic.twitter.com/bIxllj2eAN

— Economic Freedom Fighters (@EFFSouthAfrica) March 21, 2019