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President Jacob Zuma, speaking during an event to mark the country's Human Rights Day, called on South Africans to pause, reflect and roll up their sleeves to help the government build a better country for all its people.

A centre of remembrance will be built in the Eastern Cape, near the grave of Saartjie Baartman – because “her story is the story of the world. The memory of Sarah Baartman is the memory of the world”.
• SA judge UN Human Rights head

South Africa has launched its new National Climate Change Response Policy. Developed over the last six years, the policy gives the country a clear roadmap for responding to the urgency of climate change as it pushes towards a "green" economy.

In July 2011 the 16th World Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf and the fifth International World Federation of the Deaf Youth Camp take place for the first time on African soil, under the auspices of the Deaf Federation of South Africa.
• Using theatre to educate

The University of Pretoria’s Centre for Human Rights, an institution established during the worst excesses of the apartheid era, has been awarded the prestigious Unesco Prize for Human Rights education for 2006, beating 49 candidates from 37 countries.