AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): The flag of Imam Hussain (PBUH) flew in the streets of the South African township of Soweto as the community marked the Arbaeen commemoration in a symbolic walk.
Following the route taken by students in 1976 when they rose up against the oppressive white Apartheid regime in South Africa, those participating in the march said all struggles are linked to Imam Hussain’s (a) timeless fight for justice.
Soweto was home to some of the strongest anti-Apartheid activism and leaders such as Nelson Mandela hail from the township.
One of the marchers and an anti-Aprtheid activist told Iran Press that the walk is important for raising consciousness about the ongoing struggles for people’s rights around the world: “The walk in Soweto is significant in that we are walking on the footsteps that were taken - or the route that was taken - by the 1976 June uprising students of Soweto."
"So, this, for us, reminds us of the importance of self-sacrifice for justice, for truth, even if your life is at stake. Bringing ImamHussein into Soweto, we are saying to the oppressed masses of Soweto, South Africa and the world that the struggle still continues, the struggle and the revolution for justice, for truth still persists and is still relevant, as it was in Karbala, as it was in June 1976,” the activist added.
Posters highlighting the Palestinian struggle for justice and the global responsibility to boycott the Zionist regime were also raised as people made their way to the Hector Peterson Memorial Museum.
Peterson was one of the youths killed by Apartheid-era police as the students rose up against the white supremacist regime.
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