Africans have from time immemorial upheld appreciable moral standards and their moral standing chiselled in their culture and traditions have punctuated the heartbeat of every part of their social and economic lives, North West Premier Thandi Modise declared in Mahikeng on Friday.
Delivering her 2013/14 Departmental Policy Statement and Budget Speech in the Provincial legislature, Premier Modise said that the 50th Anniversary of the Organisation of Africa and celebration of the African Union’s 10th year of existence to be celebrated on Saturday 25 May 2013 are a celebration of Africa’s potential and intentions and a celebration of its march to equality, justice and progress on the continent.
“We are proud of this heritage, a heritage that has engendered in many amongst us, a sense of selflessness and giving. It has nurtured the spirit and enhanced our sense of collective coexistence, without which we remain disunited entities with a reduced sense of self,” underlined Modise.
The Premier further said that the province joins millions of Africans in the continent and in the Diaspora in the march for African Renaissance to reaffirm themselves and future generations of Africa that all efforts are steps geared to demonstrate the awakening of Africa as a self reliant economic giant.
“We know that our mother continent has gone through waves of democratisation after being colonised and brutalised for centuries, we know our determination, despite all the political and economic challenges we face as a continent, to make true the jubilee celebration of Pan Africanism,” highlighted Modise.
She said that South Africa has been given the responsibility for infrastructure development and that the establishment of the Presidential Infrastructure Coordinating Committee could be seen as a model for the Africa infrastructure build.
Modise asserted that the African Union recognises that development that development, democracy and good governance, security and peace are the prerequisites for growth in Africa.
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