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Ncome Reconciliation Day brings South Africans together?
"It means that while we remember the pain of the past, we will not allow it to stop us from building a better tomorrow."
Reconciliation does not mean forgetting or trying to bury the painful history of conflict, President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday.
“It means that while we remember the pain of the past, we will not allow it to stop us from building a better tomorrow.”
He was speaking in at Ncome Museum commemorate the National Day of Reconciliation.
Pres.Zuma said colonialism of a special type continued to deprive the African people of their land and made them pariahs in their motherland.
“Owing to the deep divisions of the past, 16 December before 1994 had a different meaning to different people, depending on their racial or ethnic background or even their ideological orientation,” he said.
He said for some, 16 December was a symbol of triumph, for others, the symbol of resistance and pain, or alternatively a bitter experience of wars and dispossession.
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