Pretoria - The Ministry of Arts and Culture has wished all South Africans of the Muslim faith and Muslims around the world a blessed Eid.
Muslim communities in South Africa throughout the long month of Ramadan have demonstrated their spiritual strength, immense sacrifice and unwavering devotion, said the ministry.
"Their efforts, particularly during this period, are lessons to each one of us as together we seek to promote social cohesion, nurture a culture of tolerance and goodwill and build a caring society," said Arts and Culture Minister Paul Mashatile.
"Our strength as a country comes from our embracing of unity in diversity. Our success as a people, who have thrown off the yoke of apartheid and established a non-racial and non-sexist democracy, comes from a united effort of all those who have stood together to be counted as part of a united nation of many languages, religions and cultural expressions," Mashatile said.
He added that through their swift humanitarian contributions in supporting those in need of assistance within the country during trying times and in disaster-stricken regions of the world, Muslim communities have played and continue to play a selfless and exemplary role.
