ABSTRACT
After the 1994 election, the new government in South Africa focused on reconciliation, nation building and social cohesion in order to unite its different racial groups with the aim of achieving a non-racial society. Diversity was seen as the new nation’s strength, and the motto adopted for a reshaped future, which, in the Khoisan language of the |Xam people, is !ke e: |xarra ||ke, which means ‘diverse people unite’. This crucially reorienting declaration of nationhood was enshrined in the new South Africa’s national coat of arms.
