Africa-Press – South-Africa. Monuments, statues, and museums have a key role to play in the political and cultural life of any country as they are a means of giving recognition to those who suffered hardship, repression, exile, or death in pursuit of universal ideals such as human freedom.
Those were the words of President Cyril Ramaphosa who delivered the keynote address at the unveiling of two statues of Nelson Mandela in Mthatha, Eastern Cape.
This formed part of Mandela Day celebrations on Tuesday.
Mandela, the nation’s first democratically elected black president, was born in Qunu Village, Mthatha, on 18 July 1918.
The former president died peacefully aged 95 on 5 December 2013.
The unveiling of the statue was one of a series of events lined up by the government to celebrate and preserve Mandela’s legacy.
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