Hon members, today our motion is a cry for the reconstruction of how we as a people remember the struggle against the inhumane and murderous apartheid regime. We are calling for the restoration of equality in how we shape the memory of where we come from; the heroes and heroines who confronted difficult and impossible conditions in order to shine the sun of freedom on our dark and painful past.
Over the past 25 years, celebration after celebration we have left the patriarchal structure of memory and history uninterrupted. We have been complicit in the false idea that only men led in the revolution. From television and films to artworks and monuments, the image of women is marginalised. They always appear as supporting actors in an otherwise male- driven movie of the history of human freedom. Even when women are portrayed in both motion and