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Stakeholder Magazine 3RD Term 2019 20 FREEDOM PARK QUARTERLY BULLETIN QUARTERLY STAKE HOLDER MAGAZINE OCTOBER TO DECEMBER 2019 Freedom Park’s stunning architectural beauty is beyond adequate description TABLE OF CONTENTS especially at twilight when the reeds light up the evening sky with its majestic splendour. What makes this a wonder is so incredible that it is beyond comprehension how it came to be. The composition of the forms and the lines of the Park are perfectly asymmetrical. Here we meet with a beautiful mixture of lines, horizontal with vertical, and straight with curved and cobbled pathways all Chairperson’s remarks 02 harmoniously set together in total unity. They adopt each other with amazing uniformity and the combination is entirely rhythmic and melodic. To me this is how I perceive the Freedom Park. Breathtakingly awesome in its design yet significantly CEO’s Foreword 03 knowing that this is the fruit of the freedom that we now enjoy. This is the resting place of our people who died for the cause of liberating our land and transforming it into an independent sovereign nation. Editor’s Comment 04 In taking Freedom Park to the people and fulfilling its mandate, we explore and celebrate the nation’s capacity for reconciliation and its desire to build a united Lest We Forget 05 nation whilst recognizing the diversity of cultures. Freedom Park has streamlined the spectrum of the stakeholder community by integrating, through debates and Opinion Piece 11 discussions, the Indian, Coloured, Afrikaaner, Khoi and San leadership to seek a manner of addressing the issues of inclusivity and representivity in the conceptualization and design of the Park. International Solidarity 12 Freedom Park embodies the aspirations of the nation. That is, a nation that recognises the centrality of the past in informing the present so that signposts for Dialogue with the Nation 15 the future can be put in place – a future that envisages a non-racial, non-sexist democratic society. Corporate Calendar 16 The Park complements the existing heritage landscape of South Africa and seeks maximum coherence and minimum duplication in its relations with other heritage sites. In this context, Park opens an opportunity to reposition how the South African Heritage sector delivers its services to communities and the nation, and the world at large. In taking Freedom Park to the people and fulfilling its mandate, we expect to explore and celebrate the nation’s capacity for reconciliation and its desire to build a united nation whilst recognizing the diversity of cultures. Rogini Govender This December marked the 6th death anniversary for Nelson Mandela. We honoured the former President in a Peace and Reconciliation Walk. On December 16 is considered as one of the the global front we were delighted to honour the most historic and memorable days in the Soviet soldiers in a solemn Wreath-Laying. The history of South Africa, this day still stands inscriptions with the names of 67 Soviet/Russian as a reminder of where we come from, soldiers who sacrificed their lives to assist the where we are and where we are going as a liberation movement resulting in the united nation. Although commemorated establishment of a free and democratic South differently during apartheid, this day has Africa was recognized and remembered. The since the onset of democracy, been used relationship between Russia and South Africa to foster reconciliation and national unity. dates back to the struggle years, during which many Soviet soldiers fought side-by-side with ~Ms Jane Mufamadi, Freedom Park CEO liberation armies, such as Umkhonto we Sizwe in ~ Mr Ronnie Makopo South Africa, MPLA in Angola, and FRELIMO in Mozambique. This quarter we celebrate the month of Reconciliation. This day acts as a catalyst for In line with government’s initiatives, Freedom Park celebrated the day by fulfilling its reconciliation and nation building. Our first democratically elected South African president mandate, which is to remember and honour men and women who lost their lives in the and the Patron-in-chief of The Freedom Park, Dr Nelson Mandela, captured the essence of struggle for freedom and humanity and to foster social cohesion and nation building in the this day in his address on Nation Reconciliation Day, 16 December 1995: “There are few country. Visitors will reflect and pray, deliver messages of hope, peace, and reconciliation countries which dedicate a national public holiday to reconciliation. But then there are few and healing to each other. nations with our history of enforced division, oppression and sustained conflict. And fewer still, which have undergone such a remarkable transition to reclaim their humanity . This The path of reconciliation has proved to be most challenging for the South African nation. Day of Reconciliation celebrates the progress we have made; it reaffirms our commitment; However, as Frost so aptly reminds us, it is this choice that “has made all the difference.” and it measures the challenges.” South Africa has often been hailed as the miracle nation – a cause for the rest of the world to marvel at the phenomenon of a country on the brink of civil war that chose a road of As we come together in the many events hosted at Freedom Park these gatherings gives negotiation. We have accomplished this despite the differences in culture, race, religion and ordinary South Africans the chance to join with their brothers and sisters across different creed that define us. racial, religious, political, social and economic boundaries and come together with one aim in mind: to act as a catalyst for people across the nation to forgive and be forgiven. As we engage with the communities on a national level: by bringing diverse communities together, Freedom Park provides a platform for diverse individuals to realise that they share As an institution tasked with promoting reconciliation, social cohesion and nation building, similar experiences, a similar past and similar pain. In terms of reconciliation and nation Freedom Park together with the Veterans League celebrated December 16 with an Interfaith building, this is a pivotal realisation that will allow all South Africans to embrace each other Prayer and Dialogue. The Prayer and Dialogue was conducted given the recent xenophobic as diverse brothers and sisters. attacks that swept across the country. The South African nation is no stranger to what may seem impossibly charged situations. We have experienced situations that could have Designed to restore the cohesion by focusing on reconciliation as well as bearing witness to resulted in a civil war consuming our country, but each and every time we have opted for the the past, it encapsulates our living heritage and thus assists us to create footsteps between humane route. It is time that we make a conscious decision to opt for that route again. the past, the presence and the future. I would like to thank all stakeholders for their association with Freedom Park and wish I would like to thank all stakeholders for their association with Freedom Park and them a Blessed Festive Season. wish them a Blessed Festive Season 02 03 LEST WE FORGET! NELSON ROLIHLAHLA MANDELA 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013 This call to every South African to embrace the efforts of Freedom Park does, however, go far beyond the individual realm. Today Freedom Park Nelson Mandela was born on 18 July 1918 into a royal issues a similar call to corporate South Thembu tribe in the South African village of Mvezo. He Africa, asking them to take ownership of first in his family to receive a formal education, Mandela this project that reflects the pride of a completed his primary studies at a local missionary nation – a physical space that continues school. There, a teacher dubbed him Nelson as part of to sing the praises of a national unity that a common practice of giving African students English we have achieved despite our numerous names. He went on to attend the Clarkebury Boarding diversities. Institute and Healdtown, a Methodist secondary school, where he excelled in boxing and track as well as academics. In 1939 Mandela entered the University of Head of Department Public Fort Hare. Participation, Ms Modjadji Makoela This quarter has seen a great visitor increase, in the number of events hosted as well as tourist arrivals. We have welcomed markets that have not visited before and our visibility as a foremost heritage destination has heightened. The following year, he and several other students, including his friend and future However, reaching every South African with the message of reconciliation and nation building business partner Oliver Tambo (1917-1993), were sent home for participating in a becomes a somewhat daunting task without the aid of strategic partners. boycott against university policies. After leaving for Johannesburg he worked first as Freedom Park envisions its target market as the approximately 58 million South Africans. Active a night watchman and then as a law clerk while completing his bachelor’s degree by participation, buy in and ownership from corporate South Africa is pivotal. Various avenues of correspondence. He studied law at the University of Witwatersrand, where he assistance and ownership need to be explored. became involved in the movement against racial discrimination and forged key relationships with black and white activists. In 1944, Mandela joined the African Exposure in government and corporate internal newsletters and departmental outings to Freedom National Congress (ANC) and worked with fellow party members to establish its Park are two practical examples. Inviting foreign dignitaries to the Park to understand the heartbeat of our nation is another. Freedom Park also offers organisations a unique and distinctive alternative youth league, the ANCYL. That same year, he met and married his first wife, Evelyn to the run of the mill break-aways and team building exercises.
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