South Africa dwells on its glorious past, present and progressive future
South Africa dwells on its glorious past, present and progressive future
South Africans marked Heritage Day yesterday as a day to "reflect on the past, the present and the future, on where we came from, where we are and where we are leading," in the words of Johannesburg's The Star newspaper.
The first sentence of the preamble to the nation's Freedom Charter, adopted on June 28, 1955, reads: "We the people of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know: South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and no government can justly lay claim to authority unless it is based on the will of the people."
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In an editorial yesterday, The Star broadly echoed Nelson Mandela's concept of a 'Rainbow Nation'.
It wrote: "On Heritage Day it is appropriate for us to remind ourselves that we have a responsibility to preserve the priceless treasures of our geographical environment: the streams, the rivers and the seas that wash our coastline, the mountains and valleys, the flora and fauna, as well as, of course, our history that incorporates the settlement on the southern tip of the continent of the Khoisan peoples, the arrival of African indigenes from the African interior and, later, of people from Europe and Britain."
Eloquently expressed!
