Heritage is an embodiment of a past we wish to take into our future without losing the benefits of a changing present. It defines not only a sense of belonging, it makes the past a form of the present and an abstraction of what a future will look like with us as a presence of the past which is a present we are living in now. Like its adjunct tradition, it creates and reorders our background of permanence. It assists us to transmit the merits of the past to modern-day originality. Such a background anchors the values with which a society can be normed. The ANC conference, as the single most event that makes it possible for society to ‘rethink the dispersion of history in the form of the same’, is in itself a heritage site not only for its members but observers of how a democratic process unfolds. It will be displaying how far can the will of its members be respected and/or manipulated as well as disregarded. This display will unfortunately add a layer that sediments upon exis...
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