According to an analyst, the Afrikaner community had not generally accepted that some historical actions by the NP were wrong.
There was outrage in the Afrikaner community following the removal of the 1938 Great Trek Centenary Memorial in Klerksdorp during Heritage Month. Jaco Cilliers, head of culture of the Federation of Afrikaans Cultural Associations said the Matlosana municipality had unlawfully changed the 1938 Great Trek Centenary Memorial in Klerksdorp and erected another memorial in its place.
Cilliers said on the memorial stone, erected on 25 September in place of the Great Trek memorial, the names of municipal workers who died during the Covid pandemic appeared.“This monument was erected for a specific reason and that reason must be understood and respected in historical context,” he said.
“But it is not the right place or monument to do so, because it does not match the right context,” he said.“It serves as proof the ANC has absolutely no regard for the cultural heritage of any other group. The ANC government sees the annual celebration of Heritage Day as nothing more than an opportunity to pacify minorities with empty rhetoric, while reality demonstrates that, in the ANC’s world, there is no room for the heritage of others,” she said.
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