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THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA CONSTITUTION BILL 1996! THE GOOD, THE BAD AND ANTI-AFRICAN!!!


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In South Africa we are recently following and observing a very interesting story were a young African man was forced to undergo a tradition transition to manhood against his will.

The law fraternity best describe the case as a dispute between customary law VS the constitution.

It is very clear constitutionally, that the young-man has a case. No one should be force to participate in any initiatives unwillingly.

Having stated the above, on the affirmative I have a very interesting questions, where are we taking this country and the African continent at large? Are we developing the ideal global village in the expense of the local village and its founding principle? Is she going to be proud about the compromise of our traditional premise, precipitated by the adoption of the bourgeoisie influenced human rights policies?

Judge John Hlope once made a reflective statement as he was proposing a complete and throughout, cultural transformation of the judiciary and its composition. He went further and says as African we must have our laws based on African laws not Dutch laws.

We are indeed living in a very critical epoch of our lives, were we must make amendments to safeguard, defend the African interest and protect her children and the next generation, today.

We are told that South Africa has the best human rights policy in the world; however it is not complementing the fundamental that defines why we are Africans.

I personally and truly envy the delegation in pre 1994, which represented political parties as they partake in the CODESA negotiation and ultimately under a number of setbacks they manage to formulate a policy framework to take us forward. Eventually it was adopted by the constitutional assembly of “THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA CONSTITUTION BILL 1996” Cape Town, 8 MAY 1996.

In layman’s term it means that we ought to accommodate the disindigenous families in the house of PHALO, SHAKA, MOSHOESHOE and other African kingdom, as if this was not enough. We are expected to cease our customs the only thing that is left and best define our being, and make way for, homogeneous policy in the interest of the extended kingdom. What puzzle me the most in a post 1994 the supposing democratic order everyone wants to be an African without in true essence living like one, who is then African and who is not?

The African Man
Bongani “into kam Afrika” Mabusela

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JBK36 Me
September 17, 2009 | 3:39 PM
Nice blog, I enjoyed it.

It would be great and I think very fruitful to merge our cultures into modern society, but it is very critical what aspects of our cultures we adopt. I must say that there are procedures from our fore fathers that were there because of ignorance and are useless or even negative, finding a way to recover the useful principles is what we need to do.
But then again since we are so diverse (11 official languages means 11 different cultures...etc) how do we go about this without fighting among ourselves?
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