As the country celebrated Heritage Day on Sunday resulting on Monday being a public holiday, to some it was just an extra day to have braais and catch up with families and friends. For the National Heritage Council though, September is a month to celebrate and embrace the country's heritage and culture in order to enhance unity and nation building. President Jacob Zuma delivered his keynote address at the main event in Siyabuswa Mpumalanga. He emphasized that the Constitution is a powerful symbol of South Africa's political and liberation struggle. The President said government has introduced the Liberation Heritage Route National Project. The project has restored and declared burial sites and graves of a number of liberation stalwarts as National Heritage Sites.
The theme for the celebration was 'The Year of OR Tambo: Celebrating our liberation struggle. But, can the country's heritage and history be told without reflecting on its Colonial and Apartheid past?

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