Edited sentence: " But he feels that the draft proposed by education minister ,Naledi Pandor, could not be accepted."The preamble, especially, is a backward step in an already deeply divided country and will not serve nation building or the notion of patriotism."This is an opportunity for the nation to be in conversation."This oath is nothing more than an attempt by the ANC to indoctrinate vulnerable school children with a permanent guilt complex,".Chairperson of the Afrikanerbond, professor Pierre Theron, said "In the current moral decline in South Africa it can be a foundation to build and maintain values and norms.In 2008 government introduced an Oath to be recited everyday in schools.It cannot be expected of everyone to adhere to this pledge if everyone is not treated equally.It is one thing to break down the past but the present is as intolerable and as discriminatory as the past.Jaco Mulder, a provincial parliamentarian of the minority opposition party "Freedom Front Plus"  said:.Sipho Seepe, president of the SA Institute for Race Relations, said:.That is very important.The upsetting factor is that it is felt to be targeted at mainly white children that are expected to apologize for acts not directly commited by themselves.This Oath consists of phrases where children are expected to apologise for the acts committed in the past under apartheid.a Newspaper columnist said that it would only remind children that "the little white ones among them are evil seed"