Government committed to preserving liberation heritage: Ramaphosa

President Cyril Ramaphosa says the government is making every effort to preserve the country’s liberation heritage.

The President has urged South Africans to honour the men and women who have contributed to the Freedom that South Africa enjoys 30 years into democracy.

Speaking at the homecoming ceremony he says, “We must continue to honor those men and women whose love for their country and its people motivated them to sacrifice their lives for freedom.”

Repatriation Homecoming Ceremony | President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa

Ramaphosa has officially welcomed the remains of 42 liberation struggle activists at the Freedom Park Heritage Site and Museum in Pretoria.

These remains of struggle stalwarts who died whilst in exile were repatriated from Zambia, Zimbabwe earlier this week.

This coincides with South Africa’s Heritage Month, celebrated under the theme “Celebrating the Lives of Our Heroes and Heroines who laid down their lives for or Freedom”, paying tribute to the many struggle warriors who gave up their lives for the country’s freedom.

Freedom Park is marked as an area where South Africa’s inimitable heritage and culture can be reminisced, treasured and celebrated. The heritage site similarly embraces a commemorative list of names of those killed during the apartheid era, World War I and II.

INFOGRAPHICS | Repatriation Homecoming Ceremony of exiled struggle heroes