The life of the dead is placed in the memories of the living. We will continue to remember and emulate the exemplary leadership of our heroes who died in the Central African Republic.
Over the weekend our entire nation took the long journey to accompany the mortal remains of our sons who died during the African Union peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic to their final resting place. The memories of these heroes of our nation who died in combat wearing the glorious boots and uniform of our National Defense Force hoisting the beautiful flag of our Republic, will forever inspire the generations of mankind to come. They are the true national heroes of our Republic.
We the African people believe that the dead remain living on our side. We are a society of the living and the dead. We believe that the immortal spirit of these heroic sons of our soil will rise again each dawn, inspiring our people to continue with their determination to make our country and the continent a better place for humanity. Their immortal spirit will forever presides over the solidarity of the working class struggles across the world against imperialism and neo colonialism.
The best homage we can pay to these extraordinary brave young men of our Republic is to emulate their noble ideas and convictions they lived and volunteered their lifes for. We should emulate their noble ideals of taking forward the struggles for the total liberation of the people of our continent and the world, the struggles for the socio economic transformation of the living conditions of the people of our continent and the struggles for the unity and cohesion of our people as a precondition for the successes of our continent.
Our national democratic revolution is traversing the most difficult epoch in its history. Counter revolution and infantile disorder is at its determination to undermine the tremendous achievements we have accomplished. Imperialism and international monopoly capital is manipulating some of our prodigal sons and naked opportunists such as our former Minister of defense force and now the beleaguered President of the Congress of the People Mr Mosioa Terror Lekota, to choose the path of plunging confusion amongst our people into believing that humanity can live a future which is not sure of its today.
Our culture fears and respect the dead and their families. We do not expect a leader of his calibre or any other individual of high moral values to choose the path of self aggrandizement and triumphalism at the expense of the grief of our people. He has proven himself to be an embodiment representing the worst form of populist opportunism of the 21 century.