A Speech About South Africa´s Democracy and Freedom Essay

Greetings, my fellow South Africans. Today we are here to come together and unite in our quest for a continued democratic government. I, BB HH, am the president and founding member of the Democratic Fusion Committee (DFC). This nurtured, beautiful, beloved Rainbow Nation has encountered its birthday of being a democratic society for twenty long, splendid, strengthening years. This society climbed it’s arduous journey out of the rubble and dystopia that was our past and transformed this country from a barren wasteland filled with lies, deception and hate into a utopia from which sprung forth equality, freedom and love. The hands of Tata Madiba, by which this great nation was born, worked tirelessly to achieve the democracy we have†¦show more content†¦With this, a teaching program will be established to revitalize the minds of our nation’s teachers along with new schools being constructed in areas of over-population and high illiteracy percentages. Seminars that are funded by the government wi ll also be available to illiterate men and women of all ages who wish to read and write. This will increase the rate of employment, especially in tourism, and therefore our country’s economy will thrive. I believe that, as a nation, we need to move forward from Apartheid and liberate ourselves from our past in order to move forward. We have sworn to uphold our basic human rights in our constitution and now I swear to you, that I myself will uphold these rights and, maybe most importantly, the right to equality. When I speak of equality, not only do I speak of equality between the races of our Rainbow Nation, but the equality between education, equality between employment and equality between gender. Since the beginning of time, women, of all races, have been confined to the stereotypical ideology that we are inferior to men. 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