VIEW FROM THE SECRETARY-GENERAL
elsewhere opportunity to reflect and implement the best values he professed. South Africans still face challenges in breaking away from apartheid attitudes and social structures. To succeed in this process, the education system should be fully utilized. Also, political leaders should utilize the constitution to weed out the remaining social structures that discriminate and divide citizens. I would also suggest religious leaders congregating together to work against any weeding out apartheid culture among their congregations. I feel that the leaders of the post-Mandela South Africa need to practically
address what the “Father of South Africa” envisaged when he preached about a “Rainbow Nation” through reconciliation. The process needs to be established for fair economic sharing. Let South Africans address the land distribution among its citizens equally and with urgency. As in many other parts of the world, the people,
particularly the youth, are impatient and in a hurry to realize a fair economic sharing system, be it from industrial, mining, transportation or other economic activity. As I have said before in my views, democratic systems will not be sustained by unfair economic systems. Therefore, the South African body politic has currently a good opportunity to work on the best way forward beyond Nelson Mandela, properly utilizing the results of the forthcoming general elections. I wish to emphasize, as we enter 2014 and work toward a better and
relevant Commonwealth, that we should utilize the wonderful example of Nelson Mandela in working to forge a better society. If Mandela lived longer, I am sure he would have fought the remaining racial arrogance and discrimination – in sports and other social contexts. I am sure he would have been shocked by the recent revelations in the Stephen Lawrence case in the United Kingdom.
The Secretary-General’s
The Speaker of the House of Assembly of Bermuda, Hon. Randolph Horton, MP, (left) speaking with the CPA Assistant Director of Programmes, Ms Arlene Bussette (right).
The High
Commissioner of Trinidad and Tobago, H.E Garvin Nicholas (left) speaking with Ms Meenakshi Dhar during Commonwealth Day.
The group of young participants that took part in the 2014 CPA Commonwealth Day programme in London.
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