There is an SA out there — our SA. In our SA we celebrate our people’s successes, large and small. In our SA we are generous and largehearted, not mean and ugly in spirit. In our SA we love laughter and we lean towards it with our entire beings while rejecting the crippling negativity under which many want us to live.

It is a beautiful if flawed country, our SA. At its best, it is the country of our dreams: aware of its brutal past, alive to its deeply unequal present, and hopeful for an equitable and just future. It is a country for and of those who know that our past can be vanquished by the choices we make in the present...

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