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Adriaan Basson | Apology to Ambassador Abravitova and the people of Ukraine

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Children play on the stage of the theatre of the Ukrainian House where a shelter for refugees is installed in Przemysl, south eastern Poland, near the Ukrainian-Polish border.
Children play on the stage of the theatre of the Ukrainian House where a shelter for refugees is installed in Przemysl, south eastern Poland, near the Ukrainian-Polish border.
WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP/Getty Images

As we celebrate Human Rights Day, let it be said loud and clear to the people of Ukraine that South Africans do not all share the immoral stance taken by President Cyril Ramaphosa and the ANC on Russia's invasion of a peaceful nation, writes Adriaan Basson.

On 21 March 1960, 62 years ago on Monday, the PAC under its visionary leader, Robert Sobukwe, led an historic protest march against the apartheid state's degrading pass book system.

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