Industrial Engineering Heritage Day Celebration – 17 September 2024
- Industrial Engineering Heritage Day Celebration – 17 September 2024
The 24th of September was recognised for the first time in 1995 as a national holiday in SA, and at the first nationwide recognition and indeed celebration of all peoples’ heritage, then Archbishop Desmond Tutu coined the phrase ‘Rainbow Nation’ to describe the country he saw before him. And for the past three decades it has been a moniker synonymous with South Africa.
A word of Welcome from the MC – Cyle Wilson:
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In the RSVP form we asked the question below – and no two responses were the same.
While there is undoubtedly a common thread between all of these, the fact that all of them are different is a testament to the diversity, no only in terms of physical, like skin colour, or tangible, like language, but also in terms of more nuanced things, such as beliefs of ways of thinking, ways of interpreting the world around us – a meaning making process unique to every single one of us.
What does ‘heritage’ mean to you?
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