Riyaz Patel
President Cyril Ramaphosa has emphasized the importance of reading and preserving indigenous languages while leading South Africa’s Heritage Day celebrations in Upington, Northern Cape.
“On this day we celebrate our many cultures, traditions and languages. We also celebrate our greatest legacy of all, and that is our freedom.”
This year’s theme for Heritage Day focuses on the promotion of indigenous languages and literature to ensure its revival and preservation.
“Language is the great transmission line that binds us to our forebears. It helps us to understand where we have come from and anchors us and our children in the present,” said the president at the Mxolisi Dicksy Jacobs Stadium in Upington.
Breaking off to speak in some of South Africa’s eleven official languages, Ramaphosa underlined that there is “no language in this country that is superior over another.”
Earlier, the president opened the Sandile Present Community Library,
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