South Africans Celebrate Heritage Day

South Africans have been urged to use Heritage Day, on 24 September, to celebrate diversity and to reach outside their comfort zone to discover and embrace other cultures.
  • South Africa:   Heritage Day Call for 'Unity in Diversity'

    SA Info, 25 September 2012

    No culture in South Africa was pristine and no language was unaffected by the melting pot of the country's history, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Heritage Day, calling… Read more »

This year's theme is "celebrating the heroes and heroines of the liberation struggle in South Africa".

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