Message from Ambassador Dennis Thokozani Dlomo to the students of the Bachelor of International Relations of the Centro Educativo de la Región de Texmelucan, A.C., in the State of Puebla, on the occasion of the 7th Conference of Internationalists (Better known as the Event of the Flags).
Pretoria, South Africa, April 27, 2022.
Mensaje del Embajador Dennis Thokozani Dlomo a los alumnos de la Licenciatura en Relaciones Internacionales del Centro Educativo de la Región de Texmelucan, A.C., en el Estado de Puebla, en ocasión de la VII Jornada de Internacionalistas (Mejor conocido como encuentro de Banderas).
Pretoria, Sudáfrica, 27 de abril de 2022.
Verbatim transcript:
“I am Dennis Thokozani Dlomo, the Ambassador of South Africa to Mexico. We are also responsible for six other Central American countries. It is a great pleasure that I join you remotely as you celebrate the 27th of April, which marks the symbolic day for the founding of our nation.
Our elections of 1994 took place over four days: the 26th, the 27th, the 28th and the 29th of April. South Africans in their rainbow shade went out to vote and Africans voted then for the first time. They created a non-racial, non sexist, non homophobic and democratic South Africa. They continue to fight for a better life, they continue to work together hand in hand to make sure that everyone who lives in South African can do so without poverty, without inequality and without unemployment.
I salute you as you raise your flags, as you raise our flag. That flag is symbolic; ours represents our desire to have better life. It represents our desire to make sure that unemployment is a thing of the past, to make sure that inequality-which is a legacy of Apartheid- ceases to exist in our land and, importantly, that people of our Rainbow Nation, in their rainbow shade, continue to have a better life.
I hope to join you in August, when we celebrate Women’s Day. Then we will be playing tribute to the hard work that women in South African contributed to freedom in the struggle against Apartheid.
See you in August!
