http://www.knotofstone.com history is not set in stone Wed, 09 Mar 2022 17:36:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.knotofstone.com/rewriting-history/#comment-5838 Sonja Haas Mon, 24 Sep 2012 07:42:22 +0000 http://www.knotofstone.com/?page_id=13391#comment-5838 Forget about Heritage Day this year, it’s time for the new smartphone app.

]]> http://www.knotofstone.com/rewriting-history/#comment-5837 Nicolaas Vergunst Mon, 24 Sep 2012 07:00:40 +0000 http://www.knotofstone.com/?page_id=13391#comment-5837 24 September, Heritage Day, a national day set aside to commemorate former heroes of the liberation struggle in South Africa and a highpoint in the ANC’s 2012 centenary celebrations. However, this is not a day shared with equal enthusiasm since it fails to address the collective history of all South Africans. If we are to celebrate our heroes, from both before and after apartheid, then I suggest we regard them as the successors of an age-old tradition: According to Bantu belief the ancestors return to live again through their descendants and, moreover, are only reborn if the living remember them. We are thus dynamically linked to our ancestors through birth, death and the life to which we all return. Karmically speaking, we are the inheritors of this ancestral quest for justice—one in which Steve Biko and Nelson Mandela also played their part—and today’s political leaders have to do so too!

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