JOHANNESBURG - As the country prepares to mark 59 years since the Sharpeville Massacre, President Cyril Ramphosa is expected to commemorate the event by leading the official Human Rights Day programme in Vereeniging on Thursday.On this day in 1960, 69 people were killed and hundreds more injured when police opened fire on protesters who were burning their pass books at the Sharpeville Police Station.
The Economic Freedom Fighters will also be in Sharpeville for its own remembrance event but at the Dlomo Dam. Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane and Gauteng premier candidate Solly Msimanga will take to Bekkersdal where they are expected to emphasise on the low employment rate.
Hope his not catching the train
The ANC has stolen their followers and South Africans, human rights, they gave them no land, no jobs, no electricity, no water and stole the economy into near junk status and now they want to honour those same rights they stole.. F&% off ANC
He’ll rather go to Eskom Head Office to sort out the load shedding nonsense 🤬 People didn’t die for this nonsense going in this country.
Eskom_SA KhuluPhasiwe Can you please make sure there’s LoadShedding in Sharpeville the whole day?
CyrilRamaphosa we have the right to basic utilities you $%€*€ LoadShedding VFPlus
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