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ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says after dismantling systemic racial segregation, South Africa chose the path of reconciliation to build a society where the children of both the oppressed and the oppressor could live together side by side, without fear.
RECONCILIATION DAY | President Cyril Ramaphosa says former oppressors tried to turn South Africans against each other, fomenting violence, terror, and instability that tore communities apart. pic.twitter.com/noAIxjjOLw
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Speaking at the commemoration of the Day of Reconciliation at the Ncome Museum in Nquthu in the north of the KwaZulu-Natal, Ramaphosa says citizens should make a promise to future generations that South Africa shall never again be divided by hatred, injustice or exclusion.
“The majority of South Africans were victims of a political order that denied them their humanity and yet at the dawn of democracy, they didn’t choose vengeance or retribution. When others wanted to break the majority, they chose to build, where others wanted to sow divisions they chose reconciliation,” says Ramaphosa.
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