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Essay / A speech on democracy and freedom in South Africa
Greetings, my fellow South Africans. Today we are here to come together and unite in our quest for continued democratic government. I, BB HH, am the president and founding member of the Democratic Fusion Committee (DFC). This beautiful, beloved rainbow nation has celebrated its anniversary as a democratic society for twenty long, splendid and strengthening years. This society has climbed its difficult journey out of the rubble and dystopia that was our past and transformed this country from a barren wasteland filled with lies, deceit and hatred into a utopia from which equality has arisen. , freedom and love. The hands of Tata Madiba, by whom this great nation was born, worked tirelessly to achieve the democracy we have today, and for which the DFC will continue to strive unceasingly in everything we do. Changing to a government that has never been in power before, especially since democracy, is a frightening ordeal, but as Tata Madiba once said: "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear4, but the triumph of it. The courageous man is not the one who is afraid, but...