NATIONAL NEWS - Despite the progress made, South Africa was still confronted by sinister attempts to undermine national unity through acts of racism, attacks on foreign nationals, and the open display of the old South African flag, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Saturday.
“On this Freedom Day, we have much to celebrate. Most prominent among our achievements has been the promotion of our nationhood in a united, non-racial, non-sexist, and democratic South Africa,” he said at the national Freedom Day celebrations at the Miki Yili Stadium in Makhanda, formerly Grahamstown.
“Our new nationhood manifests itself in many ways. Today the children of our land, black and white, can learn in the same schools, and study in the same universities and colleges. When democracy came, we did not sink into the abyss of vengeance and retribution,” he said.
South Africa’s Constitution was the main pillar of its democracy, the safeguard of independence, and expression of a commitment to human rights. It was the work of the struggles of the masses and embodied the aspirations of millions of South Africans who had a role in crafting it. It was what united South Africans, the beacon of the people’s aspirations and their shield.
