THE Department of Sports, Arts and Culture has announced the decision to review the process related to the R22 million flagpole project that was meant to be erected at Freedom Park in Tshwane.
Earlier this week, Sports, Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa defended the decision to build the flag, saying it was meant to memorialise the country’s democracy, adding that the monument flag would teach people about the country’s democracy and how it got there.
But on Thursday the department said that the diversity of voices around the heritage project are a welcome celebration of the country’s vibrant constitutional democracy and the freedoms that must be upheld beyond posterity.
According to a feasibility study, the monument flag will stand 120m tall with the cloth flag being 10m x 15m.
“Over the past few days, the Minister has followed and taken note of public discourse that has unfolded in respect
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