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Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
We are still to reach the end of our journey towards a truly united, non-racial, non-sexist, prosperous and free South Africa. It should not and cannot be that the task of bringing about reconciliation rests squarely on the shoulders of those who were oppressed. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
As South Africans, we must never forget the Preamble as set out in our Constitution: https://t.co/8LskWTqMVV — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
As much as we cannot escape history’s scrutiny, as much as the wounds of the past are still fresh in the minds of many, we should strive to give effect to the promise that we made to ourselves on that day in Sharpeville 25 years ago. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The change came in the form of our Constitution, in whose shade millions of our people shelter today. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Each of us has a responsibility to help build a new nation and a new society dedicated to the realisation of the potential of all. Change did not come soon enough for the many South Africans who lost their lives at the hands of a cruel regime, but change did nonetheless come. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
We can never forget the humiliation, the degradation and the inhumanity and cruelty. Nor must we ever forget the responsibility that we each bear to consign such suffering and injustice to the past. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
We can never forget the lives that were lost, the families that were torn apart, the land that was taken, the livelihoods that were destroyed, the rights that were denied, and the dreams that were dashed. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
We must never forget the atrocities at Boipatong, Bisho, KwaMakhutha, Langa, Soweto and Sharpeville. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
We can neither ignore, nor must we ever seek to dismiss, the anger, the pain and the disappointment of those who recall the place FW de Klerk occupied in the hierarchy of an oppressive state. We must never forget the injustices of the past. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
We recall that President Mandela’s statement that De Klerk was “a man of integrity” was put to the test as state-sponsored violence continued to ravage communities in what is now KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
In remembering FW de Klerk, and in according him this State Memorial Service as a former Deputy President, we recognise that his contribution and his legacy remain contested. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Yet even in moments of difficulty, at times when we were close to the brink, I found him to be courteous, respectful and committed. FW de Klerk had the courage of his convictions. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
He could be prepared to compromise but he could also dig in his heels. Sometimes he offered me counsel; other times I offered it to him. And there were times when strong words were exchanged between us. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
I came to know FW de Klerk over many years during negotiations, first at CODESA and the multi-party talks, and later in the Constitutional Assembly. We had moments of friendliness, but we also had our disagreements. He could be affable but he could also be stubborn. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
And while his predecessors had never managed to cross the Rubicon, FW de Klerk embarked on negotiations with the liberation movements and was brave enough to see them through to their ultimate conclusion. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
It made them realise that the protection of minority rights they sought was inextricably linked with the protection of the rights of all South Africans as clearly enunciated in our constitution. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
In many ways the change that took place freed them from their fear of majority rule and made them accept that South Africa belongs to all who live in it as set out in the Freedom Charter. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
We cannot say with conviction what course our country would’ve taken had that speech not been made. We can however say that the country was faced with a choice, between a negotiated settlement & a protracted civil war far more destructive than anything we had experienced before. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
In the words of Frederick van Zyl Slabbert: “His intervention was extremely fortuitous, individual and extraordinarily audacious, and history surely owes him a debt of gratitude for what he did.” — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
De Klerk went against elements in his own state security apparatus, and against die-hards who were prepared to take up arms to preserve the status quo. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
In taking such a bold step FW de Klerk went against many in his own party, and against many white South Africans who had been taught about the ‘swart gevaar’, who had been brought up to fear majority rule and to regard black aspirations as a threat to their way of life. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
In taking this bold step, De Klerk heeded the call by Nelson Mandela who, while still incarcerated, told the apartheid rulers that the only way to resolve what he called the perpetual crisis in the country was through negotiations between the ANC & the National Party government. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
FW de Klerk’s speech on the 10th of February 1990, in which he announced the unbanning of political parties and the release of Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners, was a brave act. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The path we followed – of negotiation over conflict, of reconciliation over recrimination – was in no small part thanks to the courage and the conviction of FW de Klerk. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
They were prepared to put aside their differences and were ready to talk with their sworn enemies. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The fact that it was the struggles of the South African masses that forced the perpetrators of apartheid to the negotiating table does not render their contribution any less significant, nor their pragmatism any less genuine. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
demonstrating the embrace by many on the African continent of reconciliation and forgiveness over hatred. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Significantly, these talks were the inspiration for the planned establishment of the Nelson Mandela Centre for Forgiveness on Gorée Island in Senegal – which was one of many sites where millions of Africans were sold into slavery – https://t.co/w535KpvegX — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
This meeting was among several pivotal events that laid the ground for the negotiations that were to follow between the ANC and FW de Klerk’s National Party. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
I have just returned from Dakar in Senegal, where, in 1987, a historic meeting took place between the ANC and a delegation consisting of, among other others, Afrikaner academics, teachers, journalists, artists, business leaders, writers and professionals. — PolitiTweet.org
