We salute the heroism of our combatants who fell in line of duty in the Central African Republics.
Last week the South African nation received the shocking news that thirteen of the members of our national defense force fell in combat in the face of an ambush by the insurgents whilst on an AU peace keeping mission in the Central African Republic. We take the opportunity to convey our sincere and heartfelt condolences to the families of these fallen heroes of our nation, who volunteered their lifes for the noble cause of contributing towards making the our continent a better place for humanity.
Our nation and the entire people of the African continent salute the heroism of these martyrs of our revolution, for their extraordinary commitment to occupy the forefront trenches of our struggles for the freedom and dignity of our people. The brutal assassination of these most outstanding and illustrious members of our national defense force by the insurgents in the Central African Republic, has reaffirmed our scientific notion that ideas are more powerful than weapons. The blood of these fallen heroes of our nation has germinated the seeds of solidarity and the determination of our people to take forward our collective effort for peace and development of the continent.
We pay tribute in memory of these fallen heroes of our people for their selflessness and indomitable contribution to the struggles of the people of the continent against poverty, disease and underdevelopment. Their noble contribution to the cause of the freedom and democracy of the people of the Central African Republic, will forever be recorded in the annals of our history books as a symbol of courage to the struggles of our people against the historic legacy of imperialism and colonialism in the continent.
The unity and cohesion of the African Union and her member states is a growing thread to the interests of the military industrial complex and monopoly capital in the continent. There is an escalating counter revolutionary effort sponsored by the former colonial masters to undermine the rule of law and democratically elected governments throughout the continent.
The increasing number of insurgents groups that seek to undermine the collective effort of the African Union for peace, stability and development of our continent is a thread to the future of our next generations to come. The growing reality is that the former colonial powers are determined to reverse back the wave of the democratic dispensation and commitment by the African people to improve their living conditions sweeping our continent.