EFF Rejects Human Rights Day, Demand It To Be Renamed

It wouldn’t be a public holiday if the EFF didn’t talk about it, would it? The Red Berets have used the occasion to criticize Human Rights Day in South Africa, and they are now calling for a name change.

Every year on March 21, Human Rights Day is observed. This is the date on which thousands of black citizens who rose up against the brutal apartheid regime in 1960 fought back against oppressive, racially-based laws. In total, 69 people died – a sacrifice that, according to the EFF, is being grossly undervalued.

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However, the EFF made certain that their main grievance received the most attention. They are now ‘rejecting’ Human Rights Day as a concept and will instead celebrate Sharpeville Day in memory of the dozens who died.

“The naming of the 21st of March as Human Rights Day is the highest form of revisionism, which must be rejected with the highest form of contempt that it deserves. Accordingly, the EFF recognises today as Sharpeville Day.”

“This is in honour of those who were slain by the apartheid government, for refusing to have their movement controlled and dictated to them in their own land. We salute the brave Pan-Africanists who led from the front.”

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See the full statement attached below:

EFF Observes Sharpeville Day pic.twitter.com/SJfVwEGma3

— Economic Freedom Fighters (@EFFSouthAfrica) March 21, 2022