In South Africa the 16th of December is a Public Holiday known as The Day of Reconciliation and came about in 1995. The first non-racial and democratic government was tasked with promoting reconciliation and national unity, hence its inception and is a significant day in post apartheid South Africa. Unfortunately after 18 years South Africans observe this day for the first time without the man that was the greatest reconciler of all... Nelson Mandela.
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| FW De Klerk and Nelson Mandela |
As part of the Reconciliation Day celebrations planned in Pretoria today hundreds of South Africans witnessed the unveiling by President Zuma of a nine metre high statue of Nelson Mandela at the Union Buildings.
Zuma explains the significance of the design of this 9 meter high imposing statue that weighs 4.5 tons, took 9 months to make at a cost of R8 million.
“The stretching up of his hands and the footwork denotes that South Africa is now a democratic country. He’s advancing to the nation to say ‘let us come together, let us unite’ with both hands embracing the entire nation.”
Nelson Mandela will live on in the hearts of a Nation forever...
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| The unveiled statue of Madiba. |
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