The best way to honour Madiba’s and preserve his legacy is to fight against the domination of the economy by a tiny white elite
The Congress of South African Trade Unions joins millions of South Africans and global citizens to celebrate the International Nelson Mandela Day. The 18th of July was declared by the UN General Assembly in 2009 as International Nelson Mandela Day.
This commmemoration comes at a time when globally the world is in dire need of inspiring and visionary political leaders. The leadeship of President Mandela’s stature is needed now more than ever.
President Nelson Mandela will be remembered for his words of wisdom and amongst the most profound quotes is the following; “During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
COSATU is therefore deeply dissapointed that in South Africa, there is still very little that has been done to fight the economic domination by a white minority. Apartheid which was a systemized the racial oppression of black and other people of colour has not been totally dismantled because the aparthed’s so called separate development is still being perpetuated by the government’s neolioberal policies.
Twenty four years after the democratic breakthrough the majority of black workers are still only usefull for only generating wealth that keeps the small white population in comfort and secure. The majority of black workers are still treated as inferior and the manority of black students to still get only rudimentary education, health and nutrition.