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NELSON MANDELA: ICONS NEVER DIE LECTURE BY: Prof NELSON MANDELA: ICONS NEVER DIE LECTURE BY: Prof. PLO – Lumumba, LL.D, D. Litt (hc), FCPS (K), MKIM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DELIVERED DURING NELSON MANDELA MEMORIAL LECTURE AT THE WALTER SISULU UNIVERSITY, SOUTH AFRICA ON TUESDAY 17TH JULY, 2018 Page 1 of 9 “During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.” 20th April 1964 at the Rivonia Trial Page 2 of 9 First, I take this opportunity to express my profound and heartfelt gratitude to the people of the Oliver Reginald Tambo Area in Umtata the birth place of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela in whose honor we are gathered here today on the occasion of his centenary being the 18th day of July 2018. It is gratifying that while many activities are being held in different parts of South Africa and the world, I have the honor and privilege of delivering this lecture in his place of birth and at the University named after his ‘comrade-in-arms’, the late Walter Sisulu who history records as having invited him into the struggle. Today, we commemorate the centenary of a man, who at the risk of being melodramatic, was larger than life, almost as large as death -Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, fondly known as Madiba. This land, which you fondly call “Mzantsi” in which I have the privilege and honor of speaking in memory of Madiba is great for many reasons which it would remiss for me not to mention on a momentous occasion such as this. It produced the great Shaka of the Zulu and did not stop there. It gave birth to a man who should be spoken more often Pixley Ka Isaka Seme but did not stop there. It produced Albert Luthuli, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Peter Mokaba, Tiro Ongopotse, Bantu Stephen Biko, Chris Hani, Tokyo Seswale, Albertina Sisulu, Winnie Madikizela Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada, Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and many others alive and departed including President Cyril Ramaphosa, some departed and some still serving this great nation. So on this historic day, I am reminded of great men and women and another great man who sojourned on this land without being its aborigine, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi popularly known to the world as Mahatma Gandhi. In the dramatization of his life, in a motion picture eponymously named, the English film maker Richard Attenborough says of the Mahatma; …The next generations will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked the surface of this earth… In the continent of Africa, if there’s a man to whom these hyperbolic words may be applied, it is Page 3 of 9 Nelson Mandela. I am therefore humbled and titillated at once that I am standing before you to deliver this lecture. But who was Nelson Mandela? Films have been made, Books have been written, Plays have been written, School children have composed songs and dramatized, Universities have philosophized and intellectualized and The spiritually inclined have moralized about him. I will not walk the well beaten path that speaks his exploits. Instead, I will merely celebrate this man born to Nosekeni Fanny and Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa in Qunu in Umtata on the 18th of July, 1918, at Mvezo, a tiny village on the banks of Mbashe River in the district of Umtata, the capital of Transkei. Mandela was of the Xhosa tribe and a member of the Madiba clan, named after a Thembu Chief who ruled the Transkei in the Eighteenth century. Like you must, to an invited guest speaker, grant me latitude to go back to my School days and specifically to the year 1975 when I read Nigeria’s Chinua Achebe’s ‘Things Fall Apart’ where he says many things: but today I care to remember only two; First, that when one looks at a king’s mouth, he cannot imagine that he too suckled the mother’s breast and secondly, that a chick that will grow into a cock is seen on the day that it hatches. I am not Xhosa, but my reading of Madiba’s book ‘Long Walk to Freedom’ tells me that the name Rolihlahla bestowed upon him at birth by his father started to define his personality for Rolihlahla is a Xhosa name that means “pulling the branch of a tree” but its colloquial meaning more accurately means “troublemaker”. Although the celebration of Madiba’s centenary must be punctuated with joy and revelry, it would be improper for us not to remember the circumstances that defined the man. Page 4 of 9 Like most, Madiba grew up in an African environment that romanticists would describe as serene and innocent but which was thoroughly disturbed by foreigners. First, by the advent of colonialism and much more perniciously by the institution of Apartheid that inhuman system of institutionalized racism conceived by the nationalist government under Hendrik Verwoerd, paradoxically at a time when the international community, first in 1945 in San Francisco through the United Nations Charter had underlined the quality of man, and reiterated it in Paris in 1948 through the United Declaration of Human Rights, yet it is that same world that remained so eloquently silent when Apartheid was instituted in 1948. It is the Apartheid regime that turned a man who eschewed violence to be at the forefront of the creation of “Umkhonto we Sizwe” (the Spear of the Nation) as a means of confronting fire with fire. Madiba was greatly influenced by the likes of Walter Sisulu who had a burning desire for the liberation of South Africa and believed that the means to effect change in South Africa, the repository of black hopes and aspirations, was through the ANC (Africa National Congress) which was an organization that aimed at working to improve the conditions and rights for people of color in South Africa. It is this admiration that made Mandela desire to belong to a group in which Sisulu was a member and at that point he joined the ANC in 1944. The ANC was initially founded as the South African Native National Congress (SANC) on 8th January by Saul Msane (Esq), Josiah Gumede, John Dube, Pixley Ka Isaka Seme and Sol Plaatje. The organization was renamed the ANC in 1923. This history is known to all of us and does not deserve repeating. What deserves focus is the life and times of Madiba and the lessons we can draw from it. If I had come here to praise Madiba, I would have said how he abandoned Legal Practice to join the struggle against Apartheid. I would have said how he spent twenty seven (27) years in privation at the notorious Robben Island. Page 5 of 9 I would have said how he sacrificed personal comfort for the general good, but I will say none of those because enough commentators and Historians have immortalized those deeds in books and documentaries. Today, I come here to celebrate Madiba as an icon whose life and times will eternally serve as a beacon of hope to all the suffering peoples of the world and Africa. So comrades join me in imagining what Madiba would have said today if he stood in this place of his birth and looked at the pain and suffering that still abounds in the world amidst joy and revelry in some parts of the same world. I think Madiba would have surveyed the African terrain from Cape Town to Cairo and from Addis Ababa to Free Town in Sierra Leone. He would have asked himself whether the promises made by African leaders in May 1963 in Addis Ababa have been fulfilled. He would have asked whether the unity proposed by Kwame Nkurumah and his compatriots had been achieved. He would have asked whether Africa is free from violence. He would have asked whether Africa exploits her resources for the benefit of her sons and daughters. He would have asked whether Africa sits among the comity of Nations as an equal partner. He would have asked whether the cradle of human civilization protects her sons and daughters. He would have asked whether the men and women who preside over Africa as her leaders consider themselves trustees of their people or their overloads. Comrades, if Madiba were to be candid he would say that: save for a few pockets of success, Africa still toils and moils under great difficulties. Page 6 of 9 He would have applauded Rwanda for emerging from the genocide of 1994 and would not have forgotten the economic successes of Botswana, Namibia, Mauritius and The Seychelles among others. In the same vein, he would have saluted the on going rapprochement between Eritrea and Ethiopia. The positive developments changes in Zimbabwe, Ghana and Tanzania would not have escaped his attention. But I have no doubt he would have reprimanded the political leaders of South Sudan and exhorted them to sacrifice personal ambition for the general good. Returning back to his home in South Africa, he would have reminded the leaders and the people that the long standing issue of land must not be postponed any longer but must be resolved in a manner that does not disrupt the Nation and in the spirit of Ubuntu. He would have noted that his Mother Africa still bleeds in Somalia, in Democratic Republic of Congo, in Northern Mali, in Northern Mauritania, in Northern Nigeria, in Niger, the Cameroons, in Central Africa Republic and in South Sudan.
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