Africa's youth should rebel - Thabo Mbeki

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http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Africas-youth-should-rebel-Thabo-Mbeki-20120317

Johannesburg - The youth of the African continent should prepare themselves for a rebellion against their older generation and claim their leadership role Thabo Mbeki said on Saturday.

Mbeki who was addressing the Youth 21 global leadership forum in Nairobi, Kenya said two thirds of the continent's population was the youth and that in 2045 they would be the leaders responsible for the two billion projected continental population.

"To ensure that [the youth] actually exercises the leadership everybody rhetorically accepts and proclaims is its due, the youth must organise and ready itself to rebel, so to speak!"

"It would obviously be unnatural that I, a member of the older generation, would easily and willingly accept that younger people, my own children, should, at best, sit side-by-side with me as co-leaders, fully empowered to help determine the future of our people," he said.

He said the new generation should define its unique and historic contribution to their societies' development, otherwise it ran the risk of betraying its mission which would condemn the continent to "the out-dated views and prejudices of the older generations".

He said the continent's future depended on achieving the objectives in African Youth Charter of "peace and security, democracy and good governance, economic growth and development and gender equality" to which all African Union member states were bound to.

For the youth to take up their leadership role, it was imperative that Youth 21 global forum establish how the older generation should enable them to "discharge their obligation to exercise leadership" and "organise itself to play this role...in the in struggle for the realisation of its goals," said Mbeki.

- SAPA
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What an idiot. :mad:
 
Of course he is right. They should rebel and burn down the DA with their Madam and teegirl. If everything has been properly burned down then they are truly free :D WTF never liked Tabo, although he has such a nice name. Mind you, there are not many ANC/freedom fighters I like. But then again, I can't say that too loud otherwise I am a instant racist.
 
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this is Mbeki getting back at Zuma :D the wheel turns
 
"To ensure that [the youth] actually exercises the leadership everybody rhetorically accepts and proclaims is its due, the youth must organise and educate itself to lead Africa into the future, so to speak!"

There are ways to inspire - this is by using positive language.
To incite revolution and civil war, you say what Mr Mbeki did.
 
Revolutions need not be violent. I'd tend to agree that Africa as a whole needs a revolution of sorts, but I'm not about to promote violence.
 
Garson007 said:
Revolutions need not be violent. I'd tend to agree that Africa as a whole needs a revolution of sorts, but I'm not about to promote violence.
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Africa needs revolution big time. They need to rise up and remove the people wrecking their lives. I do get the feeling though that things would be violent and honestly there is no one who will come and help them.

Russia and china won't lift a finger, the west more than likely wouldn't even give it a thought. So it would be a pointless exercise. If the world sat by while mugabe wrecked zimbabwe what hope does the rest of the africa have?

There are massacres in numerous african countries but who does anything about them? Who threatens to remove the dictator or government?
 
Garson007 said:
Revolutions need not be violent. I'd tend to agree that Africa as a whole needs a revolution of sorts, but I'm not about to promote violence.
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Agreed. The people must just put a stop to their greedy dictator gov's.
 
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