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Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says South African leaders need to reach out to those in the Afrikaans-speaking and African communities on their concerns about singing the full national anthem.
Ramaphosa was responding to questions from journalists in Cape Town on whether he thought the refusal by some prominent South Africans to sing the full national anthem meant the country's social cohesion project was failing.
He said he did not believe this was the case - but that the country has wounds from a fractured past that need to continue being healed.
Ramaphosa described as unfortunate the controversies over "Die Stem", when Afrikaans singer Steve Hofmeyr sang the old national anthem in Australia, and the EFF called for "Die Stem" part to be removed from the official anthem.
