Our country celebrates Freedom
Day to mark the liberation of our country and its people from a long period of
colonialism and white minority domination - which means that we no longer have
the situation in which political power is enjoyed and exercised by a minority
of our population, to the exclusion of the majority. Freedom Day is not an
African National Congress day, but a day for all South Africans. When South
Africa was liberated both the oppressor and oppressed were liberated.
On Freedom Day we celebrate the
relentless efforts of those who fought for liberation, of the many men and
women who took up arms and courted imprisonment, banning and torture on behalf
of the oppressed masses.
On this day we
commit ourselves to ensuring the defense of the sacred freedoms that we had won
as a result of a long, difficult and costly struggle. We remind ourselves that
the guarantee of these freedoms requires permanent vigilance. It is our pledge
to devote ourselves to continue to work to wipe out the legacy of racism in our
country. We need to ensure that all our people enjoy these freedoms not merely
as theoretical rights but they must form the daily life experience of all South
Africans.
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(picture taken from: Africa-heritage.com)
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