GROWING up in the ANC, one continuously heard about the many trips of our founding fathers - from John Dube to AB Xuma - to England, begging for intervention from the British monarchy to stop the oppression of Africans.
Our leaders wanted the British monarchy to intervene and to stop the killing , land seizure and disenfranchisement .
History informs us that our leaders never met the monarchs themselves, so their representatives either made unfulfilled promises or showed our leadersthe middle finger.
Ironically if not interestingly, our founding fathers continued making the trips and requests. These only stopped in the 1950s when the young lions, the ANC Youth Leaguers Nelson Mandela, Anton Lembede, Walter Sisulu, OR Tambo and so on realised that freedom and justice is borne from struggle, not visits to Europeans who continued senselessly and unabatedly to kill Africans.
History tells us what happened in 1949 when subsequent programmes of action adopted were implemented by the determined and fearless young lions of the ANC.
Ironically - and this is my point - immediately after 1994 the ANC went back to the same modus operandi of its founders. The new leaders went to the G8, G20, Commonwealth, European Union and BRIC with a begging bowl for global trade. And they once again only got unfulfilled promises.
In Kyoto as in Durban recently, we are again begging the developed world not to destroy the globe. Hence I ask, who will rescue Africans from the mental slavery of thinking that a better life lies not in others, but in our own hands.
Govt must stop begging West for a better life
GROWING up in the ANC, one continuously heard about the many trips of our founding fathers - from John Dube to AB Xuma - to England, begging for intervention from the British monarchy to stop the oppression of Africans.
Our leaders wanted the British monarchy to intervene and to stop the killing , land seizure and disenfranchisement .
History informs us that our leaders never met the monarchs themselves, so their representatives either made unfulfilled promises or showed our leadersthe middle finger.
Ironically if not interestingly, our founding fathers continued making the trips and requests. These only stopped in the 1950s when the young lions, the ANC Youth Leaguers Nelson Mandela, Anton Lembede, Walter Sisulu, OR Tambo and so on realised that freedom and justice is borne from struggle, not visits to Europeans who continued senselessly and unabatedly to kill Africans.
History tells us what happened in 1949 when subsequent programmes of action adopted were implemented by the determined and fearless young lions of the ANC.
Ironically - and this is my point - immediately after 1994 the ANC went back to the same modus operandi of its founders. The new leaders went to the G8, G20, Commonwealth, European Union and BRIC with a begging bowl for global trade. And they once again only got unfulfilled promises.
In Kyoto as in Durban recently, we are again begging the developed world not to destroy the globe. Hence I ask, who will rescue Africans from the mental slavery of thinking that a better life lies not in others, but in our own hands.
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