The Ministry of Arts and Culture would like to wish all South Africans of Muslim faith and Muslims around the world a blessed Eid.
Muslim communities in South Africa throughout the long month of Ramadan have
demonstrated their spiritual strength, their immense sacrifice and unwavering devotion.
Their efforts particularly during this period are lessons to each one of us as together we seek to promote social cohesion, nurture a culture of tolerance and goodwill and build a caring society.
Our strength as a country comes from our embrace of unity in diversity. Our success as a people, who have thrown off the yoke of apartheid and established a non-racial and non-sexist democracy, comes from a united effort of all those who have stood together to be counted as part of a united nation of many languages, religions and cultural expressions.
Through their swift humanitarian contributions in supporting those in need of assistance within our own country during trying times and in disaster-stricken regions of the world, Muslim communities have played and continue to play a selfless and exemplary role.
We wish you a joyful and peaceful celebration.
For more information:
Percy Mthimkulu
Cell: 082 389 2684
Lisa Combrinck
Cell: 082 821 4886
