Broadcast Type: News; North West University academics argue that protection of human rights is not a reality in the country, as many people still face challenges such as poverty, lack of housing and sanitation, while the government is believed to not be doing enough to address these issues.
in most communities lot is that a still needs to be done for people to fully enjoy their rights itumeleng mogajane attended a political science lecturer at the north-west university and prepare this report a political science at north-west lecturer university academics arguing that protection human rights of is not a reality country in the as many people abject are still living in poverty others are still houses in need of with sanitation challenges also a setback many for however others believe it has done much and is still working towards protecting human rights i don't think government is doing enough address to the problems that are faced by human rights looking at the main problem that i once said inequality is the main problem it's a long journey but the government is really trying in terms of ensuring that are safe human rights guarded we have like said what was in clause the implementation of the h i n which is a step right direction in the in terms of ensuring individuals that all receive for proper healthcare government for is blamed what i in the ashanti terms delivery service backlog it's also said that we south africans are we say we celebrate are going to human rights while to they are not applying all south african citizens we have that only clinics operate for a few was people where don't have access like for hour twenty four access which is what we we are are facing facing like serious problems coming water crisis to which is not good especially the deep in rural is where there is water at all no so africa is also for its tough lauded stance against human the violation of rights in the world we've seen with the point even that we took to the international court of justice with people israel and the of gaza that we're country a very progressive when it comes to human i think that the rights and world it can really take can really take an example or no on how to carry rights and the issue of human i think that it is start that south africa has the that it has or the attitude towards human rights is very important and detrimental to today's context considering geo political and the socio economic aspects world of the a political expert believes basic issues citizens affecting must be addressed urgently one the constitution is of the best in the world one of the best or you know in the african continent and benefits we should be enjoying the of those but i think just generally we have a lot of social economic issues that we need to look into a lot of socio economic we have need issues that we to first deal with start for us to dealing with the utmost benefits of our our our constitutional democracy so i maybe think that the government needs to have going back into the drawing board how in as far as do we solve our societal issues how do we solve our social economic particular issues in because i think bane that is where the of these particular issues arises from say academics government must prioritise the delivery service of basic as such as water and electricity and address socio economic challenges itumeleng mogajane s a b c news mahikeng thebe ikalafeng