Riyaz Patel
President Cyril Ramaphosa says reconciliation is about acknowledging that even though we are diverse, with different histories and experiences, languages and cultures, we can be united.
Speaking at the national Reconciliation Day celebrations in Bergville, KZN, Ramaphosa said reconciliation is also about honouring those who suffered for justice and freedom.
“We should recall how, enduring dispossession, racism and poverty, African people actively resisted attempts to turn them into aliens in the land of their birth, keeping up sustained, active and organised resistance.
“We should recall how African, coloured and Indian South Africans, together with white democrats, fought a brave and protracted struggle for freedom.”
To mark Reconciliation Day, the President approved the release of 14,647 offenders on pardons and remissions.
The President granted special sentence remissions to specific categories of sentenced offenders, those on probation and parolees.
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