Special Report Transcript Episode 82, Section 5, Time 49:14

There is no way in which you can concile and reconcile people if you keep them apart from each other. I think for people to come to know each other they must live together. There is a dramatic example I think in the history of this country. When Moshoeshoe the First, during the beginning of the 19th century forged the Basotho as a tribal unit if you like. He pulled together Basotho, Fengu’s, Tswana, whatever group of people he found, he pulled all of them together and in a real sense in that doing that Basotho prized peace and they prized it because it came from the origins of the tribe, making peace with each other. You may be Nguni, but you know let’s live together, let’s find a common basis and let’s become one people. And I think that that is what we’re trying to do in this country today, creating conditions in which South Africans can interact with each other, can learn each other’s languages and customs, go to school together, play together. Unless that was so I don’t see how we could concile and reconcile the people of the country.

Notes: Patrick Lekota

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