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1976 Youth Activist and Human Rights Activist Seth Mazibuko
One of the 1976 student activists, Seth Mazibuko, says although there is little to celebrate since the country attained freedom 32 years ago, things are, however, much better compared to the apartheid era.
Mazibuko’s remarks come as Monday marks 32 years since the country held its first democratic elections, on April 27, 1994.
President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to lead the commemoration under the theme: “Freedom and the Rule of Law: Thirty Years of Democratic Citizenship,” which will be held in Bloemfontein in the Free State.
Mazibuko says, “We are a country and the people that say very less was done, of course, comparing it with the past, we can’t compare what is happening now with the past. We have been able to do away with so many things, you know, dompass, we have been able to do away with segregation, but we have not let this freedom benefit our people. We still have our children unemployed, we still have our women being molested, we still have the very country being exposed and vulnerable because of crime and because of corruption.”
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