Deputy Chair, I move without notice:
That the Council -
1) notes that yesterday, 16 November 2011, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, Unesco, celebrated the International Day of Tolerance to mark and underline the importance of the values of tolerance and nonviolence with the focus on the promotion of building trust in diverse communities across the world;
2) further notes that this day is made significant by the fact that South Africa comes from a hideous history characterised by extreme race, gender, class and religious intolerance and prejudice that divided our communities and created a legacy of division and intolerance;
3) acknowledges the important step taken by South Africa under the leadership of the ANC and former President Rolihlahla Mandela to mobilise South Africans to break with our divided past and embark on a path of peace, unity and freedom as the cornerstone of building a united, democratic, nonracial and nonsexist South Africa; and
4) calls on all South Africans to observe this period with utmost sensibility and a renewed insurmountable sense of commitment to triumph over the repulsive characterisation and demeaning innuendoes that many of our people suffered under apartheid. Motion agreed to in accordance with section 65 of the Constitution.