Our democratic dispensation will be 25 years on 27 April this year. Quite a milestone, we must all admit. However, while our democracy's founding principles were hoisted on the strongest pillars of an ethos of human rights, our record on that question is very poor. South Africa still has some pockets of racism. Too many of our people, especially women and girl children, continue to be victims of violence which translates into murders in some instances and sexual harassment.