Africa-Press – South-Africa. President Cyril Ramaphosa says the country has advanced policies of redress to acknowledge and correct the historical injustices of apartheid.
He said the country has had to contend with the apartheid past in the interest of social cohesion and nation-building.
Ramaphosa was writing in his weekly newsletter, where he notes the brutality suffered by liberation activists like former African National Congress (ANC) secretary general, Advocate Duma Nokwe, who was reburied at the weekend.
Ramaphosa said Nokwe was one of many liberation heroes who died in exile.
He says many families lost their loved ones due to apartheid brutality and still live with the scars.
However, Ramaphosa says in 1994, South Africa chose a path of reconciliation, establishing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) “to shed a light on the atrocities committed during apartheid”.
But he said many apartheid-era security officials either refused to appear before the TRC, and others resorted to delaying tactics and obstruction to evade trial.
Ramaphosa said that because of this, they have continued restoring dignity and implementing redress policies in the interests of reconciliation.
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