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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>President Cyril Ramaphosa has heaped praise on former President Thabo Mbeki describing him as, “… one of our continent’s most revered statesmen.”<\/p>\n

In a recorded message to Mbeki, who celebrated his 80th birthday on Saturday, Ramaphosa said, “The democracy you helped build, of which you are a founding father, will rise to reach its full potential in your lifetime.”<\/p>\n

Mbeki served as the second president of a democratic South Africa from June 1999 to September 2008.<\/p>\n

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Ramaphosa said 80 years is said to be an oak jubilee, with the oak tree symbolising strength, endurance, and wisdom.<\/p>\n

“Such is your place in South Africa’s public life. You continue to enrich our country’s public life with your presence, your participation, and your counsel. As a former president and one of our continent’s most revered statesmen, yours could well have been a retirement of contemplation and study far from the public gaze. But this was not to be your destiny. Not with the cause of national liberation still incomplete,” Ramaphosa said.<\/p>\n

Ramaphosa said it had been an honour for him, and the government, to count on Mbeki for advice and support.<\/p>\n

“It has been a comfort to us, and to me personally, to know we continue to rely on your honesty when we are not living up to the expectations of our people.<\/p>\n

“Your appraisal of the work of government and our movement, though at times strident, is always tempered by a deep appreciation of the difficulties of overcoming the legacy of our past,” he said.<\/p>\n

Ramaphosa also told Mbeki that South Africans, and those on the continent, shelter beneath the branches of his wisdom.<\/p>\n

“For all of these achievements and more, for your courageous voice and for your solidarity with the cause of rebuilding South Africa, we thank you,” Ramaphosa said.<\/p>\n

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