Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa says it is important to continue building a culture of human rights.
Speaking on Morning Live, the minister says government will continue promoting this culture on a daily basis.
Mthethwa has urged people to have conversations about the things that unite them rather than engaging in polarising discussions.
The minister says music and sport are some of the things that can unite people from all walks of life.
Meanwhile, as the country will be celebrating Human Rights Day on March 21, questions have been asked about whether people understand the significance of that day.
This comes after boys, aged between 14 and 18, were suspended after they allegedly stripped a coloured pupil, painted him white and sodomised him with a broom handle at the Agricultural High School in Jan Kempdorp.
Meanwhile, in February the Curro Roodeplaat Foundation School in Gauteng was caught up in a racism furore after it segregated pupils according to race.
Concerned parents took exception to the alleged segregation and submitted a petition to the school to complain.
Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi didn’t waste any time in condemning the alleged racism.
Lesufi has threatened to revoke licences of schools that promote racism and said private schools needed to know they were not immune from the laws of the country.
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