ANC concerned about seeds of racial discord
2 August 2017
The African National Congress has noted with concern recent racially charged incidents in various parts of the country. Amongst these are the tensions in Eldorado Park relating to the appointment of an African teacher in a so-called Coloured school and complaints laid by the Minority Front against the leader of the EFF Mr. Julius Malema.
These and many other such incidents are an antithesis to the values upon which our liberation struggle was executed and democratic dispensation was founded. Incidents such as these, regardless of their genesis, serve only to undermine our nation’s democratic project and deepen racial discord.
South Africans, of every color and hue, have repeatedly made the emphatic point that South Africa belongs to all who live in it — black and white. In its preamble the Freedom Charter, our people’s vision for a better South Africa, proclaims: “We, the People of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know — that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of all the people;”
Our nation’s commitment to non-racism has been one of the most consistent and self-defining features of the country we seek to build. Our commitment to it as a people is sacrosanct and its attainment non-negotiable.