The 2.5 km Human Rights Day Swim on March 21st is open for registration. This is the only qualifier swim for the 2013 Freedom Swim.
The swim, part of the Freedom Swim Series, is a 2.5 km solo ocean race held on March 21st each year at Camps Bay Beach in Cape Town, South Africa.
Human Rights Day commemorates the gunning down of demonstrators by police in Sharpeville and aims at promoting respect for human rights, the protection, development and attainment of human rights, and to monitor and assess the observance of human rights in South Africa.
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