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ZA COM MR-S-163
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela's Christmas and New Year message to the people of South Africa
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- 1993-12-25 (Creation)
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Transcription of speech made by Mr Mandela
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Migrated from the Nelson Mandela Speeches Database (Sep-2018).
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ANC Website
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Christmas and New Year
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- English
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TRANSCRIPT
Dear fellow South Africans,
Christmas should be a time of joy, when families come together to celebrate the festive season.
New Year should be a time to look forward with hope and resolution.
For decades we have had no reason to celebrate, little to look forward to in the year ahead.
This year, too, brought much pain and suffering. Many lost their loved ones through the criminal violence that continues unabated. Many more lost their homes and all their possessions. Millions continue to live in the abject poverty that apartheid and the National Party rule bequeathed us.
But now, for the first time, the future holds the promise of a brighter tomorrow.
This will be the last Christmas we observe under white minority rule. We start 1994 with vigour, for it is our year of freedom. April 27 must result in the election of a government that stands for all South Africans, a government that has as its priority the building of a better life for all, bringing jobs, security and, above all, peace.
The challenge before all of us is to build the non-racial, democratic South Africa of our dreams.
Allow me, on behalf of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress, to wish you all a joyous, peaceful Christmas, and a very happy New Year!
Dear fellow South Africans,
Christmas should be a time of joy, when families come together to celebrate the festive season.
New Year should be a time to look forward with hope and resolution.
For decades we have had no reason to celebrate, little to look forward to in the year ahead.
This year, too, brought much pain and suffering. Many lost their loved ones through the criminal violence that continues unabated. Many more lost their homes and all their possessions. Millions continue to live in the abject poverty that apartheid and the National Party rule bequeathed us.
But now, for the first time, the future holds the promise of a brighter tomorrow.
This will be the last Christmas we observe under white minority rule. We start 1994 with vigour, for it is our year of freedom. April 27 must result in the election of a government that stands for all South Africans, a government that has as its priority the building of a better life for all, bringing jobs, security and, above all, peace.
The challenge before all of us is to build the non-racial, democratic South Africa of our dreams.
Allow me, on behalf of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress, to wish you all a joyous, peaceful Christmas, and a very happy New Year!
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Acquisition method: From website ; Source: ANC Website. Accessioned on 13/11/06 by Helen Joannides