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For the first time since 1994, South Africa will not commemorate Human Rights Day. This comes as the Corona virus continues to spread across the country forcing government to cancel all public gatherings.

This comes as the Corona virus continues to spread across the country forcing government to cancel all public gatherings.

Kimberley-based psychologist Dr Alan Robertson says the build-up of anxiety and stress amidst concerns over the spread of the pandemic could induce depression, leaving people vulnerable to mental health illnesses. The 1960 march was organised by then PAC President Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe and since 1994, the day has been annually commemorated as Human Rights Day.

 

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Most probably Covid19InSA way of saying human rights in 🇿🇦 is a farce given unacceptable levels of crime, corruption, no toilets in settlements & schools, ill-equipped hospitals, corrupt & ineffective SAPS a country where even dogs, 90 yr grannies & 3 month old babies are raped

What is there to celebrate if you think about it, we're still poor, still have no rights, still oppressed not far off from what we were previously, just that you don't have to carry a pass anymore an use the same toilets as white people that's all ...

We are still not equal anyway.

We should the money for medicines

Good news I don't understand these annual expenditures on these commemorations

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