Die posting over Jaqueline heeft me nog weer even goed het activismevuur in my binnenste laten branden. En dan valt een artikel wat juist handelt over Sharpeville, transformatie van de staat uit de mond van, in dit geval, de DA even heel erg niet op dove oren. Sharpville 2; a Joeburg massacre ? Is het nodig ? Liever niet….

Ps: om even in voetbaltermen te komen; ‘ ’t is stil aan de overkant…. ?

Like it or not; here we go:

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2489405,00.html

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ANC ‘dishonouring fallen heroes’

21/03/2009 14:12 - (SA)

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Johannesburg - The ANC was dishonouring the memory of the Sharpeville massacre heroes by failing to implement human rights laws they died for, said Democratic leader Helen Zille on Saturday.

“The ANC is dishonouring the memory of the fallen heroes of Sharpeville. They died so that we could all one day claim and exercise our human rights, not so that the ANC could ‘kill for Zuma’,” Zille said.

She was addressing a Human Rights Day gathering in Atteridgeville outside Tshwane.

"Thirteen years have passed since our new Constitution was adopted and fifteen years have passed since South Africa became a democracy.

“We can now look back and see whether the government has succeeded in honouring these rights. Our conclusion must be this: while the government has succeeded in honouring some of the rights in our Constitution, it has failed to honour others,” she said.

She criticised the ANC for putting the “privileges of pals above rights for all” while many continue to be denied their rights to basic services like water and toilets.

“Everyone has rights on paper, but not everyone has rights in practice. The ANC doesn't care about all the people. It only cares about a few people… making sure that Jacob Zuma doesn't go to court than it is about delivering to the people of Atteridgeville,” she said.

Zille said the ANC has failed to keep “its end of the contract” although it has repeatedly spoken about getting rid of poverty during every election period.

“What the ANC doesn't realise is that governments can end poverty only when they transform rights on paper into practice”, she said, adding that the government cannot do this if all their time was spent “protecting the privileges of one individual and his closed circle of cronies like Schabir Shaik”.

Zille said that the DA-led government in Cape Town has made great strides in service delivery.

“In Cape Town, we work hard every day to put the rights on paper into practice. Because that's how you beat poverty. That's how you really celebrate human rights. And that's how you pay tribute to the people who died at Sharpeville.”

Human Rights Day was launched in 1996, 35 years after 69 people demonstrating against pass laws were gunned down in Sharpeville.

- SAPA