President Jacob Zuma on Sunday urged South Africans to condemn leaders and organisations that preach or promote violence.

 He asked the nation to pray for peace‚ unity and tolerance and called for a South Africa that was united and peaceful and which did not discriminate against anyone on the basis of gender‚ class or race..

“We ushered in a peaceful society in 1994. We left violence‚ hatred and intolerance behind in 1994.

 “We must not tolerate any party or individuals who seek to take us back to the apartheid period of violence‚ anarchy and pain. South Africa is a land of peace. South Africa is a land of tolerance‚” Zuma said at a national prayer day event in Durban.

 “We urge all our people to unite and ensure that nobody disturbs the peace that we worked so hard to achieve.

 “Let us isolate all who promote violence. Let us also isolate and expose those who condone and turn a blind eye to the actions of those who promote violence.

 “There can never be any justification for violence and hooliganism‚” Zuma added.