South African president Cyril Ramaphosa made an appeal to the people to become active citizens of the country and vote in order to build a better South Africa, in the same way, the country overcame apartheid.
While addressing a crowd gathered on the Joza Sports grounds in Makhanda for Freedom Day celebrations on Saturday, Ramaphosa called out South Africans to play an active role in bettering themselves and their communities reported Eye Witness News.
In South Africa, April 27 is celebrated as Freedom Day as it is the day on which black South Africans finally got to vote in the country’s first post-apartheid elections held on that day in 1994. The election marked the end of white rule and the apartheid regime of three centuries that had been in place since 1948.
“Like those who went to the polls for the first time in 1994, they will hold in their hands the destiny of our nation,” Ramaphosa said.
The South African got up to dance with the choir, which performed a song in his honor, right after his speech.
Talking about widespread corruption in the country with his supporters at a rally in kwaNobuhle, Eastern Cape, Ramaphosa said the people who are involved in stealing government funds must be exposed and arrested.
“At local government… we want those who steal money to be exposed and jailed because corruption is bad,” the President said. “Those who steal money are stealing your money which is supposed to go to service delivery and work for you. So we are saying we want that to end.”
The South African legislative and provincial elections have been set on May 8. The African National Congress (ANC) is expected to keep its parliamentary majority, according to the latest opinion polls. The ANC received 70.09 percent of the total votes in the Eastern Cape in the last general elections in 2014.
