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SA Govt admits challenges post apartheid

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South Africa’s Deputy Minister in the Presidency for performance Monitoring and Evaluation of the Republic of South Africa, Obed Bapela says there are a lot of challenges in South Africa that still needs to be dealt with. Bapela was speaking on SA FM Forum@8 programme ahead of the Freedom Day on Saturday which is commemorated on the 27th of April. “I don’t think we expected these things to be solved within 19 years. We have a long history. I think there are certain strides we have made and certainly there are a lot of challenges.” “In assessing (which criteria that should be used in order to assess whether 19 years of freedom has meant something to South Africans) obviously all South Africans opt to reflect (since 1994) on what have been the strides made and indeed acknowledge, appreciate and talk about them. And look at what are the remaining challenges that are still there and talk about them, critique them and say what we could have been done better”. On the same programme the head of the political economy faculty at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection, Dr Mcebisi Ndletyana says South Africans need to understand freedom as a space that allows them to be what they can be.–Edited by Sthembiso Sithole.

Click below to listen to Dr Mcebisi Ndletyana and Deputy Minister Obed Bapela as they discuss Freedom Day.

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