Source: Eastern Cape Provincial Government
Title: N Balindlela: Moral Regeneration Summit through Education
OPENING SPEECH BY EASTERN CAPE PREMIER BALINDLELA ON THE OCCASION OF THE MORAL REGENERATION SUMMIT THROUGH EDUCATION, East London, 27 October 2004
Honourable MEC for Education and all MECs present here
Honourable members of the Provincial Legislature
Leaders from the Religious formations
Leaders from the House of Traditional Leaders
Our partners from the business sectors
Our international guests present here
Our donors, local and international
Our guests from the different organised formations
Officials from the various departments
Our social partners.
I am greatly honoured to be part of this very important occasion and to be given an opportunity to officially open the event. I am particularly delighted that it is the Department of Education that sets the trend on the programme for Moral Regeneration because as we all know education was used by the apartheid regime as a launching pad for institutionalisation of apartheid ideology which saw the exclusion of the majority of this country from meaningful participation in the social and economic development of our country and the distortion of Black History and heroes.
Through education skilled citizenry were turned into monsters that, in the words of Father Mkatshwa, ,
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