Social Movements and Human Rights Organisations will be marching from the Library Gardens to the Constitutional Court in Braamfontein Forty-seven years ago, on 21 March 1960, the apartheid police force killed 69 people and injured many peaceful protesters who were struggling against the apartheid pass laws and apartheid in general. The commemoration of the Sharpville Massacre became to be known as Sharpville Day. Sharpville Day is now called the Human Rights Day, a day in which South Africa is supposed to reflect on issues concerning all aspect of human rights. Formed in 2002, the Social Movement Indaba (SMI) and its affiliates have been at the center of struggle for reclaiming human rights as entrenched in the constitution of the country. Sections 24, 26, 27 and 29 of the South African constitution grant all citizens rights to a clean and safe environment, housing, education, water, food, basic services and education. The social and economic rights are supposed to be part of the country's programme of redressing the apartheid-inspired social and economic imbalances. Furthermore, accessing these rights would ensure the total restoration of dignity for all those who were victims of apartheid, a system described by the United Nations as a crime against humanity. Access to social and economic rights for South Africa's poor is however a daily struggle. The unemployment rate, as defined by the government is at 40%. The gap between the highest income earners and the lowest is widening. The poor continue to be affected and infected with HIV/AIDS. In 2006 it was estimated that about 6 million South Africans are infected with HIV/AIDS. Women are the most infected and affected. The government's ARV programme covers only 17% of the infected people. The housing crisis continues despite government's promises of eradicating shacks. It is reported that since 1994 shacks and shanties have been growing on an average of 140 000 a year. Even the institutions that serve big business concede that government's promises of freeing South Africa from the shackles of shacks by 2014 remains another utopia. Despite the land summit and its promises, land distribution remains one of the tribulations. Education for working class and poor students continues to be in tatters. The SMI and other organisations affiliated took part in a nation-wide protest in support of the demands for housing, land, water, electricity, HIV treatment and health care, jobs and a positive contribution to the human rights of people suffering in neighbouring countries and around the world. Part of the demands for the 21st of March day of action include a call for an end to wars in Africa as well as freedom from occupation and war in Palestine and Iraq. In addition, the march demanded an entrenchment of democracy and a culture of human rights in Zimbabwe, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Burma and Tibet. The march also attempted to strengthen these protests and all other local campaigns that are geared towards strong and combative grassroots formations that stand for real democracy and human rights in South Africa and abroad. The marchers called for an end to the persecution of African immigrants in this country as well as the closure of the Lindelani Concentration Camp, which was noted by the Human Rights Watch and the Human Rights Commission as a place that violates human rights of African immigrants.