President Cyril Ramaphosa.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has committed to continue with the exile repatriation project from various countries.
He said this as he hailed 42 freedom fighters whose mortal remains repatriated from Zimbabwe and Zambia were officially handed over to their families at Freedom Park ceremony on Friday.
"Because we must bring them all home, they must come home. The exile repatriation project will continue, we are returning them to the land of their birth, we restore them to their families and to their people. Through this we are also paying tribute to their families."
"Today, their remains return to a free and democratic South Africa. It will forever remain a source of regret that they were never to see the dawn of the freedom to which they dedicated their lives. It is fitting that we gather at Freedom Park to honour them," Ramaphosa said.
Their remains arrived at the Waterkloof Airforce Base on Wednesday.
Ramaphosa also urged South Africans to emulate and honour the repatriated liberation activists.
"We are called upon to the agents of change, we are called upon to be activists. We must follow the examples of these men and women who lie here, and we must strive for unity and not division and we must hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity and probity."
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