#HeritageDay2019 Ramaphosa To Lead Celebrations In Northern Cape

Riyaz Patel

President Cyril Ramaphosa will Tuesday lead the country’s National Heritage Day celebrations in Upington, Northern Cape under the theme “Celebrating South Africa’s literacy classics in the year of indigenous languages.”

Heritage Day celebrates the rich array of “cultural communities and assets, natural wonders and religious communities that constitute South Africa’s diversity,” the presidency said.

Twenty-five years after South Africa’s transition to democracy, the Bill of Rights in the Constitution guarantees freedom of linguistic, cultural and religious association as part of promoting and maintaining social solidarity and cohesion.

The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages.

The President will on the morning of the National Heritage Day celebrations officially open the Sandile Present Community Library ahead of addressing the nation at the Mxolisi Jacobs Stadium.

At the Sandile Present Community Library, the President’s Reading Circle, which encourages all citizens to become fervent