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Inequality and rising unemployment are some issues that need urgent address: Mthethwa

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Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Nathi Mthethwa says the path to reconciliation calls for social and economic redress. Addressing national Reconciliation Day commemorations in Kakamas in the Northern Cape, Mthethwa said inequality and the rising unemployment rate are amongst some of the issues that need to be addressed urgently.

“Reconciliation has to be about a real change in the material conditions. So that quality of life of our people disadvantaged by colonialism and apartheid and oppressive groups improves. For reconciliation to be meaningful, black people and black women in particular need to be economically empowered,” says Mthethwa.

Mthethwa says the scourge of Gender-Based Violence and femicide is another pandemic that the country has to tackle. He says the country should be made safer for women and children.

“It is about time that men and young boys shoulder the responsibility of ending Gender-Based Violence and Femicide. There can be no real reconciliation in this country nor can we be a nation at peace with itself if the scourge of Gender-Based Violence and Femicide persists,” Mthethwa explains.

VIDEO: Reconciliation Day celebrations 2021

 

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