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Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Many countries on our continent gave shelter and support to Oliver Reginald Tambo and many others who were driven into exile. The leaders of these countries also supported and encouraged a negotiated and peaceful transition to democracy. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Our freedom was also made possible by many people around the world and African countries that rallied to the cause of freedom in South Africa as they became convinced that apartheid was a crime against humanity. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The prophetic words of Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu as he was led to the gallows – when he said “My blood will nourish the tree that will bear the fruits of freedom” – will forever remain as an epitaph to the crime of apartheid. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The freedom we know today would not have been possible without those who paid the ultimate price in the fight for freedom, those who were tortured and murdered, those who were imprisoned and exiled. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The freedom we know today would not have been possible had it not been for the contribution of black, white, Indian and coloured men and women; democrats, socialists, communists; Africanists and Afrikaner nationalists; comrades and adversaries. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The constitution-making process, our first democratic elections, the sitting of the first truly representative Parliament, and the systematic dismantling of decades of racist and discriminatory laws, were milestones on a difficult journey that was many years in the making. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Even as he expressed his doubts about some parts of the Constitution, he was prepared to acknowledge that it provided a foundation for a South Africa in which the rights and freedoms of all its people would be guaranteed. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Even as he entered into negotations, he was fearful of a number of things, including majority rule and universal suffrage. Even as he spoke about equal rights for all, he and his party wanted minority rights, cultural rights and the language of Afrikaans to be protected. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
In making this statement – a statement that stood in stark contrast to the political ideology on which he had been raised and for which he had stood - he acknowledged both his fears about change and the extent to which the new democratic Constitution answered those fears. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
“Dit skep instellings en meganismes om die demokrasie in stand te hou, om korrupsie te beveg, om die onreg van die verlede te herstel, om diskriminasie teë te werk, om die regspraak te laat geld, en om ons kultuurverskeidenheid te akkommodeer.” — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
“Ons grondwet skep die kanale waarlangs alle Suid-Afrikaners hulself op 'n demokratiese manier kan laat geld. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
And from across the aisle, representing the National Party – the party that had for nearly half a century held the country in an iron grip of racial tyranny – then Deputy President FW de Klerk said: — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
the fear of the disempowerment of one social echelon by another, the fear of the use of state power to deny anybody their fundamental human rights and the fear of tyranny.” — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
“It seeks to create the situation in which all our people shall be free from fear, including the fear of the oppression of one national group by another, — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Speaking on the same occasion, then Deputy President Thabo Mbeki said: “The constitution whose adoption we celebrate constitutes an unequivocal statement that we refuse to accept that our Africanness shall be defined by our race, colour, gender or historical origins…” — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
On the day our new Constitution was adopted by the Constitutional Assembly, I said that this document was the birth certificate of our nation. A nation of free and equal people. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Born into white privilege and power, raised in the ideology of racial superiority, committed to the defence of an abhorrent and inhumane system, FW de Klerk would come to play an important role in our democratic transition. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
In many ways, the journey of our nation was not unlike the path that the life of FW de Klerk followed. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
It spoke of a journey that South Africans had traversed over many decades – a journey from the darkness of subjugation and exploitation and humiliation into the light of freedom, democracy and equal rights. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Some of the relatives of the 69 people who were massacred at Sharpeville were also seated in the audience together with FW de Klerk. It must have been a sombre moment for him. It must also have been a moment of deep reflection. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
His presence on that day, to bear witness to the signing of the Constitution that would be the foundation of a free South Africa, was deeply significant. His presence was a measure of the changes that had taken place in our country in the passage of only a few years. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Seated not far from President Mandela on that historic day in Sharpeville was Frederik Willem de Klerk, the last President of apartheid South Africa and the man whom we are assembled here to remember. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The signing of the new constitution in Sharpeville represented the restoration of the basic human rights of our people. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The Constitutional Assembly, which I led together with Leon Wessels, had decided that this pivotal moment in our history should be memorialised by the signing of the supreme law of our democracy at the place where the human rights of our people had been violated. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
With its guarantee of fundamental freedoms for all, our democratic Constitution was signed into law by President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela in Sharpeville on the 10th of December 1996. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Today is an important occasion for all South Africans. Two days ago, we marked 25 years since the passage of the first Constitution of a democratic South Africa. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
RT @PresidencyZA: President @CyrilRamaphosa has invited scientists from fellow BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China – to work… — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
It is therefore necessary that global leaders come together to fully fund the #ACTAccelerator’s new Strategic Plan so that we can continue to save lives, and so that we can end this pandemic, not just for some, but for everyone, especially in the most vulnerable communities. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
We need the full suite of countermeasures – they being vaccines, treatments, tests, functioning health systems, and personal protective equipment – to fight COVID-19 and save lives. And the world needs the #ACTAccelerator to make this happen. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
We must invest in strengthening health systems because health systems are what turn vaccines into vaccinations and tests into testing. We need research and development to adapt our tools and stay ahead of this mutating virus. #ACTAccelerator — PolitiTweet.org
