African solidarity and camaraderie reignited
Brand South Africa wrapped up a media tour during which journalists from African media houses visited some of the country's key infrastructure sites in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Durban. The tour profiled the value chain from production to export. The tour also highlight the opportunities for intra-African trade.
While the sensational focus on politics and politicians continues, South Africans have been steadily building a nation, inspiring new ways, as they overcome the many challenges of a transforming society.
Transformation requires an understanding of the past and the present to create a vision for the future.
Freedom Park in Pretoria articulates a narrative of the compounded impact of first colonialism on South Africa, and then apartheid. It presents an in-depth and meaningful image of the history of South Africa as it seeks to heal the damage on the South African psyche, of the unnatural superiority and abnormal inferiority that seems to afflict the society.
It provides a more accurate, balanced and factual account of the South African story which had become distorted through racism and oppression.
Freedom Park has managed to create a space for forgiveness to manifest while ensuring that the dehumanising brutality and injustice of apartheid is never forgotten but continues to serve as a sober reminder that ‘freedom wasn’t free’.
This is also the narrative of South Africa that Brand SA projects, while holding up a mirror to the current affairs shaping the country.
The issues around flying the flag correctly and delivering a correct rendition of the national anthem are important; however Brand SA has a deeper role to play in defending the hard fought freedom and to guard against leading South Africa down the road of triviality.
Read More
Mandela Statue unveiled
Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane with former Deputy President Baleka Mbete and Zindzi Mandela. Picture: Jacoline Schoonees
International Relations and Cooperation Minister Nkoana-Mashabane unveiled a statue of former President Nelson Mandela at the South African Embassy in Washington D.C, United States of America.
The department said the South African Embassy has been working on the installation of the statue at the newly-renovated Chancery.
The Embassy is a historic site of many protest marches by the Free South Africa Movement in the US and today stands as a symbol of this activism, freedom and democracy.
NATIONAL DAYS
CHINA CYPRUS BOTSWANA MEXICO
download pdf click above
More Articles
Advertise in Foreign Exchange - 'The Diplomatic Society'
The Diplomatic Society website has reached a significant milestone in its brief period of its online presence. With over 2.5 million hits, 130 000 visitors, over 70 000 unique visitors and accessed by more than 130 countries, it is an ideal medium for businesses to market and promote their poducts and services to a global audience.
Please click on the links below for statistics and information.
MONTHLY VISITS INTERNATIONAL VISITS
ONLINE RATES WDN RATES
|
