A credo to guide the new SA
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Authors
Rafapa, Lesibana
Issue Date
2006-11-19
Type
Article
Language
en
Keywords
Credo , New South Africa , Pan Africanism , African humanism
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Abstract
The credit that may not justifiably be taken from towering African figures such as Nkrumah, Kaunda and Nyerere in whom
political power and theoretical originality interfaced, is the contribution they made towards the liberated Africans’ alignment of
their hitherto suppressed Africanness with the new realities.
These included questions relating to identity, the direction newly freed Africans had to evolve towards and modes of adaptation
they would have to acquire in the face of historical change.
For South Africans, the seat of first black president after European dominance was blessed in the person of Madiba. The pressing
need around 1994 was for a figurehead to articulate and defend the reconciliation route adopted by the government. A great many
South Africans, black and white, picked up the cue and today we can speak confidently of a more or less unified nation.
Description
This an article from the City Press newspaper of November 19:6.
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Publisher
City Press newspaper