'A hero who sacrificed himself for our freedom'
DEPUTY Minister of Public Works Jeremy Cronin urged all South Africans to celebrate the birthday of a man who had sacrificed his life for the freedom of the entire nation.
PROUD: Jeremy Cronin
Cronin was speaking at the Refilwe Multi-purpose Centre in Cullinan outside Pretoria where his department donated furniture, food and other items as part of the celebrations of former president Nelson Mandela's 94th birthday yesterday.
Staff members from the department, assisted by local NGOs, cleaned the centre and the stretch of tarred road leading to the facility. Staffers also made personal donations of food and other goods.
The multi-purpose centre was built by the department (of public works) and handed over to the local municipality to mark the 94th birthday and Mandela Day.
The facility is mainly used by NGOs for different projects, including early childhood development, children with disabilities, feeding scheme for child-headed households, old age centre and feeding about 28 home-based patients.
Dressed in bright orange overalls, Cronin met local community leaders before addressing workers.
He said: "We should celebrate Mandela Day by reminding ourselves about the fantastic values of our leader and hero who sacrificed himself for our freedom."
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GORRILAH
Cronin,Nzimande and Vavi are just oppotunists just like their friend zuma. They think that they are clever by always making innocent comments but they are corrupt as well just like the rest.Report Abuse
somaartakeit
Jeremy Cronin, when you sacrifice that means one has an option to not carry out/be subjected to a process, Mandela did NOT sacrifice anything, he was jailed cause his political views like those of many SAns were considered illegal, all those who were against apartheid were in some kind of a jail, cause they all fought for freedom in their own small ways, so now how can you take credit and output of so many and give it to ONLY one man? I think you are too much you please sit down,and btw majority SAns are still in prison of poverty as your gov (anc-communists) are looting the country's resources, if anything you ppl in the anc and its alliance should be ashamed of your thieving selves, what your theft of our resources is doing to the majority is worse than what leaders of apartheid could dream of inflicting upon us. You are a disgrace to the many who actually did struggle for our liberation, only for you robben island and exile rats to come and pleasure yourselves with our tax, I look forward to the day when there is a revolution in SA.
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