The reality is that it cannot be a celebration today. In fact, we have to ask, why, in the year 2019, individuals around us still have to struggle to have the most basic of their rights realised.
For 25 years, this country under ANC government, a country that was supposed to be the beacon of hope, a country that was supposed to be the torch bearer for human rights, has had a dismal record of supporting human rights at the United Nations.
This country sides with countries with questionable human rights records where murder, extermination, forcible transfer, rape and torture of their own people occur. And the ANC supports them.