By Mandisi Tyulu
27 April 2009
President Kgalema Motlanthe has urged South Africans to remember and be thankful to those who sacrificed their lives to realize the freedoms that we enjoy today.
“A generation of youth sacrificed their lives knowing that they did not have the right to grow up and grow old to live long and productive lives.
“Let us remember them and be thankful for their sacrifices, heroism and selflessness, which often included loss of life and limb, as well as invariably, loss of youth, all for the noble cause of freedom.”
President Motlanthe was addressing the thousands of people gathered at Durban’s Absa Stadium to mark Freedom Day on Monday.
Held under the theme: ‘Together celebrating a vibrant democracy and build in a better life for all’, Freedom Day is a call to all South Africans to be proud of the vibrant democracy.
Freedom Day is held each year on 27 April to mark the anniversary of the first democratic elections. South Africa’s fourth General Election took place last week.
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