the da and other parties represented in our na were invited to the freedom day celebrations at the union buildings on twenty seven april twenty eleven by the national government in other words we were there as guests of the minister of arts and culture and the president of the republic of south africa we were all there including the representatives of the anc to pledge our support and commitment to the government’s call on all of us to work together to unite the nation promote democracy and protect freedom unfortunately those who booed and disrupted my speech and the proceedings were in fact working against all that they disunited the nation they derailed democracy and they denied freedom mister president i_letter believe you missed a great opportunity that day to assert your leadership you addressed the multitude and said nothing about the undemocratic behaviour and the nasty display of intolerance towards a fellow countryman whose only crime was to be a member of the da mister president i_letter believe you should have taken the opportunity to tell the nation that south africa is a multiparty democracy because our founding fathers and mothers like former presidents nelson mandela