Walk To New Freedom Essay

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26 May 2014 Estee Strydom
12.1
CAT Task 4: Prepared Speech
Mrs Corrans
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The walk to new freedom

Fellow citizens of our great nation, it is an honour to welcome you here today. We are on the brink of something truly extraordinary. We, the United Party are here with one objective in mind, the goal to restore our country to what it should be. Every one of you can help us to succeed.

Our beloved Madiba once said: “My wish is that South Africans never give up on the belief in goodness, that they cherish that faith in human beings as a cornerstone of our democracy. The first value mentioned under the founding principles of our Constitution is that of human dignity. We accord persons dignity by assuming that they are good, that they share the human qualities we ascribe to ourselves. Historical enemies succeeded in negotiating a peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy exactly because we were prepared to accept the inherent capacity for goodness in the other.”

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