The SAHRC launches a Rights-and-Responsibilities Campaign and calls for an Afrocentric notion of Human Rights and Freedom

By Tshepo Madlingozi and Lee-Anne Germanos Manuel

As Freedom Month draws to a close, we would do well to remember Madiba’s words: "The time has come to accept in our hearts and minds that with freedom comes responsibility.” Nelson Mandela spoke these words in 1995 during the State of the Nation address. It could be said that Mandela was invoking a notion of freedom that goes beyond the Eurocentric and liberal model. The Botho/Ubuntu notion of freedom conceptualises freedom as ‘freedom for responsibility’, rather than the freedom to do as one pleases. 

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