Heritage Day

That raises all sorts of things about whether or not he wants to understand himself as a monarchy in charge of a geographical territorial area or indeed what we have now in terms of him being a figurehead, as it were.

You would have seen a story in the Sunday World two, three weeks ago during the celebration of the commemoration of Heritage Day.

that the King had wanted to be the main speaker at the event which was planned for KZN.

That ceremony had to be moved towards Warren because the government wouldn't agree to that.

Not the agency side as we normally would.

Um, Navini, tell us a little bit, you were telling me earlier actually about how you realized it was Heritage Day and you didn't have anything.

[laughs] It was a very interesting time actually.

I remember the, the day so well.

It was a week to go before Heritage Day.

I went to the team and I'm like, "Guys, how does the most iconic brand in South Africa and Africa itself not have a plan for Heritage Day?" The team literally took the verbal brief, and within 48 hours came up with five different ideas, and all five ideas were so incredible.

But when I had seen, I think this was the third of the five ideas that the team was pre- presented, when I saw that image and that idea, it instantly resonated because it was so rooted in the human truth of all our consumers and what they grew up with, with Vaseline taking care of them, whether it was through their grandmothers or their mothers.

I knew it would do incredibly well, but I think it definitely exceeded all of our expectations.

Yesterday I was chatting with Andrew Fulton, he of course 80-20, talking around red meat prices that are in some cases lower than a year ago.

We asked you if you were seeing cheaper meat for your Heritage Day bra last weekend.

The vast majority of you said no, not at all.

You are not experiencing this.

Now, Deputy Minister Bernice Swartz has gone to go visit the tree.

And on Heritage Day, South Africa's got an ambitious plan to plant a whole bunch of trees.

It's really important because, you know, the air we breathe is the air that all of us have to live on, the air that must keep us alive and, most of all, keep us healthy.

So it's quite important that we plant all these trees.

Its branches are reaching towards the sky.

Now, today, the South African Deputy Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Minister Bernice Swart, she stood beneath that tree.

And now on Heritage Day in South Africa, the country is going to attempt something unprecedented, and that's planting 10 million trees in a single day.

This is not just a tree-planting story, it's a story about memory, about responsibility, responsibility and inheritance.

I am Sister Mara and delighted to be in your company up to 11:00 AM this morning.

Hope all are keeping well this public holiday, this 25th day of September, and it's Heritage Day here in South Africa.

And the program of returning in today be Islam.

Well, we're gonna commence with a lovely interview, and we've got Abubakar Hassan on.

We'd love to hear from you, 0727861358.

Now, today is the 25th of September.

It's Heritage Day.

But for many South Africans, it has also become known simply as braai day.

I was thinking about it on the way here.

But then I was also thinking about how by the time this comes out, Heritage Day would have already

passed.

What's happening? Why is it Bride Day?

And it's

like,

but how does that work? So I just want to take us back in terms of the 24th of September in South Africa and Heritage Day and what it recognizes.

So it's supposed to recognize people and celebrate the cultural wealth of our nation.