Rise Mzansi: SA citizens want a country united behind common values

CAPE TOWN - One of South Africa's youngest political parties, Rise Mzansi, said that this year's Heritage Day, which falls in the 30th year of our constitutional democracy, should be about reflecting on our individual and collective features that make us uniquely South African. 

Rise Mzansi spokesperson, Mabine Seabe, said citizens wanted a country united behind common values.

"... which align with the Constitution and which Rise Mzansi has set out as freedom, equality, justice, solidarity and integrity," said Seabe.

Seabe said that the party believed that elected representatives and the people of South Africa could honour heritage through a programme of nation-building. 

"The composition of the National Assembly and executive, which is punctuated by the formation of the Government of National Unity presents a new opportunity to recommit to a deliberate and concerted programme of nation-building," he added.