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THE SECOND UPRISING A REFLECTION OF THE NEXT GENERATION:
By Sithembewena Tsembeyi
23 June 2015.
South Africans, and I hope the world, was celebrating this month as the youth month, over the years we have been celebrating, and some commemorating, this month in a symbolic tribute the courageousness of first the Soweto students and subsequent South African youth as they rise against the murderous regime of white minority. We all know that the apartheid regime met the might of the South African youth due to its continued imposition of laws and degrading laws against the black majority.
One of the reasons that the youth of that generation took out to the streets was the fact that most of the adults in our country were reluctant to continue their fight against the system that had oppressed them.
Reasons of these unenthusiastic behaviours of the older generation of 1976 were the abuse that they would have endured over the years, the burden of disposition, demoralised by consistent poverty and underdevelopment.
With the apartheid government having won the first battle of demoralisation of the African adult, a number of beer halls had been erected in most of the black concentration camps, Black taxi ranks and township, part of the sick strategy of the then government was to never give thinking time to them blacks they are dangerous when then are left sober and their thought process unoccupied.
The 1976 youth had only one hope, education of an African child, this was the only possible means to break the cycle of poverty that continued to face African families, it was the hope of the younger generation that the system can only be broken through an education of an African child, yet to that end, in 1976 when a further derogating of an African child’s education was made law, this led to impulsive resistance not by the older generation but collective strength and vigour of the youth.
The bondages and chains of apartheid have been broken loss, the South African youth pulse vibrated all over the world, and their blood would have not been in otiose. It was either to shape in or ship out, and militia camps of South African Liberation movements bursting with more and more younger people the revolution had been awaken the hope of the disposed had been restored, the incarcerated felt no longer in futile, the regimes fall was inevitable, more determination was resurrected. In less than 5 years the regime bashed on its knees, they wanted to negotiate a transition and the world was on our side.
Twenty one years into our democratic dispensation and only thirty nine years since the youth uprising, a second uprising is foreseeable, only the revolutionary conscious youth can determine its pragmatic descripts, its design and shape is dependent on reflections of the past, present and future of our country and continent. The second uprising is an African uprising defined to reshape the depilating transitional and transforms of our continent.
Two distinct discussions have rose in the past few days over the month of June, one was the one raised by former Reserve Bank Governor, Tito Mboweni, and he writes an interesting twit “I hate dictators. They complicate our lives! We need democracy in Africa. Get these old people out of office. Time for the under 50s now!!”
Not pre-empting his context of why he would associate dictatorship with age, moreover those over the age of 50, there has been systematic discussion that, particular Africa needs a redefinition of leadership, basically due to the fact that Africa is more youthful than ever and the current older generation turn to not appeal and incapable of find relevant and thoughtful solutions for the continent that continue to endure poverty and inequality amongst the majority of its occupants, which are predominantly youth.
I fully agree that ageism is counter-revolutionary and that thus derail the developmental agenda for Africa, but it’s completely irrelevant to diminish the discussion of youthful leadership to ageism, if government and authority doesn’t adapt to the dynamics of societal change from time to time, it is destined to face massive resistance of the generation of such society, the fact is if the incumbents do not understand nor address the unjusts’ that face the masses means nothing but counter-developmental, development can only be achieved through systematic adaptation of ever changing societal conditions.
Africa in particular continue to failed to address basic developmental imperatives, education investment has been trending on low, secondly intra-Africa economic development and resource management has lacked, the forever competition of African-self investment initiatives with Western-Asia Africa investment opportunity do not aspire future Africa independent authority. Africa can only be self-dependent through vigorous self-serving initiatives.
African Child Education Investment initiatives, Africa Infrastructural development programmes and initiatives, Economic Trade and Business Investment programmes for Africa by Africa are some of the vital trajectories that can define our route to self-determination and self-dependency.
In conclusion the answer to the quest for African leaders finding African solutions for African problems may possibly remain in the second uprising and uprising that will determine the cause of an African child from now and forever.
By Sithembewena Tsembeyi
23 June 2015.
South Africans, and I hope the world, was celebrating this month as the youth month, over the years we have been celebrating, and some commemorating, this month in a symbolic tribute the courageousness of first the Soweto students and subsequent South African youth as they rise against the murderous regime of white minority. We all know that the apartheid regime met the might of the South African youth due to its continued imposition of laws and degrading laws against the black majority.
One of the reasons that the youth of that generation took out to the streets was the fact that most of the adults in our country were reluctant to continue their fight against the system that had oppressed them.
Reasons of these unenthusiastic behaviours of the older generation of 1976 were the abuse that they would have endured over the years, the burden of disposition, demoralised by consistent poverty and underdevelopment.
With the apartheid government having won the first battle of demoralisation of the African adult, a number of beer halls had been erected in most of the black concentration camps, Black taxi ranks and township, part of the sick strategy of the then government was to never give thinking time to them blacks they are dangerous when then are left sober and their thought process unoccupied.
The 1976 youth had only one hope, education of an African child, this was the only possible means to break the cycle of poverty that continued to face African families, it was the hope of the younger generation that the system can only be broken through an education of an African child, yet to that end, in 1976 when a further derogating of an African child’s education was made law, this led to impulsive resistance not by the older generation but collective strength and vigour of the youth.
The bondages and chains of apartheid have been broken loss, the South African youth pulse vibrated all over the world, and their blood would have not been in otiose. It was either to shape in or ship out, and militia camps of South African Liberation movements bursting with more and more younger people the revolution had been awaken the hope of the disposed had been restored, the incarcerated felt no longer in futile, the regimes fall was inevitable, more determination was resurrected. In less than 5 years the regime bashed on its knees, they wanted to negotiate a transition and the world was on our side.
Twenty one years into our democratic dispensation and only thirty nine years since the youth uprising, a second uprising is foreseeable, only the revolutionary conscious youth can determine its pragmatic descripts, its design and shape is dependent on reflections of the past, present and future of our country and continent. The second uprising is an African uprising defined to reshape the depilating transitional and transforms of our continent.
Two distinct discussions have rose in the past few days over the month of June, one was the one raised by former Reserve Bank Governor, Tito Mboweni, and he writes an interesting twit “I hate dictators. They complicate our lives! We need democracy in Africa. Get these old people out of office. Time for the under 50s now!!”
Not pre-empting his context of why he would associate dictatorship with age, moreover those over the age of 50, there has been systematic discussion that, particular Africa needs a redefinition of leadership, basically due to the fact that Africa is more youthful than ever and the current older generation turn to not appeal and incapable of find relevant and thoughtful solutions for the continent that continue to endure poverty and inequality amongst the majority of its occupants, which are predominantly youth.
I fully agree that ageism is counter-revolutionary and that thus derail the developmental agenda for Africa, but it’s completely irrelevant to diminish the discussion of youthful leadership to ageism, if government and authority doesn’t adapt to the dynamics of societal change from time to time, it is destined to face massive resistance of the generation of such society, the fact is if the incumbents do not understand nor address the unjusts’ that face the masses means nothing but counter-developmental, development can only be achieved through systematic adaptation of ever changing societal conditions.
Africa in particular continue to failed to address basic developmental imperatives, education investment has been trending on low, secondly intra-Africa economic development and resource management has lacked, the forever competition of African-self investment initiatives with Western-Asia Africa investment opportunity do not aspire future Africa independent authority. Africa can only be self-dependent through vigorous self-serving initiatives.
African Child Education Investment initiatives, Africa Infrastructural development programmes and initiatives, Economic Trade and Business Investment programmes for Africa by Africa are some of the vital trajectories that can define our route to self-determination and self-dependency.
In conclusion the answer to the quest for African leaders finding African solutions for African problems may possibly remain in the second uprising and uprising that will determine the cause of an African child from now and forever.
Sithembewena Tsembeyi
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