Don't pin hopes of healing on ANC conference - Ramphele
20 September 2017
Cape Town – South Africa should not pin its hopes for recovery from the brutality of the country's past on the ANC's December elective conference, said politician and academic Mamphela Ramphele in Cape Town on Wednesday.
"What are we waiting for? We are the people shaping the future, not the people who are meeting in some room killing each other," Ramphele said at a discussion on heritage and multiculturalism ahead of the annual celebration of Heritage Day on Monday.
She said no one wants to open the "can of worms" that is the brutal emotional and economic humiliation caused by the country's colonial and apartheid past.
"Guess what? The can is open, and the worms are crawling all over the place in our country," she said.