AN ASSESSMENT OF CULTURAL, RELIGIOUS AND LANGUAGE RIGHTS
2022-11-02
REPORT CARD ON CULTURAL, RELIGIOUS AND LANGUAGE RIGHTS Introduction The Constitutional Negotiations The Report Card on Cultural, Religious and
REPORT CARD ON CULTURAL, RELIGIOUS AND LANGUAGE RIGHTS Introduction The Constitutional Negotiations The Report Card on Cultural, Religious and
It is a great honour for me to address such an important and interesting conference at my old Alma Mater. The theme of the conference is as daunting as it is interesting – dealing as it does with ‘Reformation theology and its impact on world societies after 500 years’. I must point out at the outset that I am a lawyer and not a theologian – so offer the following comments with some trepidation.
It is a great pleasure for me to be able to address you today on a topic that is so relevant to so many of the developments that are shaping the world in the 21st century.
People who imagine that ethnicity and religion are artificial hang-overs from a regrettable and unlamented past are deluding themselves.
They are still central to the lives of billions of people throughout the world.
President Walesa, Ms Tibaijuka, Minister Mohammed Al Mutawa, Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen.
I welcome this opportunity to share my views on the importance of peaceful coexistence and religious tolerance with this distinguished audience. I would also like to commend the Oslo Centre and the Foundation for Dialogue and Peace for the role that they have played in organising this event.
Everywhere people are on the move.
One of the inescapable implications of globalisation is an enormous increase in the interaction between people from different backgrounds, cultures, languages and religions. The management of the resulting cultural, language and religious diversity will be one of this century’s greatest challenges.
No doubt to the alarm of his minders and keepers, President Zuma deviated from the prepared text of his speech yesterday to the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Giyani, Limpopo. His speech should have been suitably innocuous – with a nod to the older generation on International Grandparents Day, exhortations to the youth and the expression of justifiable pride in the fact that the number of children infected with HIV within the East and Southern African region has more than halved in the past 10 years. There was only one reference to “apartheid colonialism” – and for the rest, the tone of the speech was suitably presidential.
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