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Focus 50 Editions FOCUS EDITORIAL DOn’T SQUANDER OR By Raenette Taljaard MISUSE MANDELA’S LEGACY elson Mandela’s 90th birthday is both a poignant their own countries, we denigrate the very essence of moment in history and a time to reflect on one man’s long walk to freedom, and what it represents Ncurrent political trends in South Africa to our entire global village. We celebrate Mandela’s crowning achievements, It is incumbent on the leaders of all political parties but simultaneously have to ask ourselves as a country in South Africa and the rest of us, not to render a what we intend to do with his legacy. Mandela himself squandered legacy to Madiba on his 90th birthday and in recent months has asked tough questions of the new beyond. It is our duty to demand values-based leadership leadership group and, in the wake of the spate of violent with as certain a true north as Madiba’s – freedom and a attacks on foreigners and South Africans alike, called for better life for all. It is our duty to demand sound ethics of a renewed commitment to unity on Youth Day. our political representatives, and to restore an awareness The Nelson Mandela Foundation has also in recent that public life means public duty, not opportunity for weeks made key statements about actions that violate personal aggrandisement and the pursuit of wealth either democracy, freedom or human rights. Theirs is a through public office. It is our duty as a nation to remind crucial voice that aims to link the values of Mandela to ourselves that Madiba’s long walk towards a rights-based our ongoing journey towards a consolidated democracy dispensation was a walk in the knowledge that we have a in South Africa, now in its 14th year. When senior responsibility towards others and that a balance of rights political leaders, and judges, through their words and and obligations should be the cornerstone of our society. deeds, rip the South Africans Constitution to shreds Nelson Mandela’s legacy of a values-driven life of and intimidate the bench, we are not honouring the valour and principle shines forth on his 90th birthday. legacy of Nelson Mandela. When we look the other But the world will rightly ask of a South Africa dogged way as our neighbours and friends in Zimbabwe are by questions about its core values whether it chose to being tortured and maimed for changing their political cherish or squander such a unique inheritance. We must allegiance from the former liberation movement to a not only give Nelson Mandela a gracious celebration for new political force, and we do not, as a bare minimum, one day. We owe him much, much more that that. We strongly condemn the violation of democracy, we betray must show, in our values, words and choices as a country, the very essence of his struggle for freedom. When we that we have secured a democratic future for those have South Africans killing not only fellow South Africans, South Africans yet to be born into a country in which but foreigners who have fled the desperate situation in lived a great global icon of the 21st century. FOCUS 1 FOCUS CONTRIBUTORS FOCUS BOARD OF TRUSTEES: Hylton Appelbaum, Wendy Appelbaum, Doug Band, Colin Eglin, Rachel Jafta, Patricia de Lille, Temba Nolutshungu, Sipho Seepe, Mary Slack, Richard Steyn and Helen Suzman - David Unterhalter, Gary Ralfe, Jane Evans Helen Suzman is the Patron in Chief of the Helen Suzman Foundation. She was an anti- and Modise Phekonyane apartheid activist and member of parliament for the Progressive Party. DIRECTOR AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Raenette Taljaard; [email protected] MICHAEL CARDO - MANAGING EDITOR: Michael Cardo is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Helen Suzman Foundation. He is Lore Watterson, Chris Watterson TM currently writing a biography of former Liberal Party National Chairman Peter Brown. – DeskLink ART DIRECTOR Baleka Mbete - Luthuli Nyathi TM Baleka Mbete is the Speaker of Parliament. DeskLink EDITORIAL BOARD: Raymond louw - Wendy Appelbaum, Gillian Godsell, William M Gumede, Raymond Louw, Howard Preece, Raymond Louw is Editor and Publisher of the weekly current affairs newsletter Southern Africa Lawrence Schlemmer, Sipho Seepe, Mary Report, African representative of the World Press Freedom Committee and member of media Slack, Alfred Stadler and Richard Steyn freedom organisations in South Africa. SUBSCRIPTIONS & CIRCULATION Tel: +27 11 646 0150 Fax: +27 11 646 0160 John kane-berman - PUBLISHED by DeskLinkTM Media John Kane-Berman is the Chief Executive Officer of the South African Institute of Race Relations, and is the Editor-in Chief of the annual South African Survey. PRINTING ColorPress (Pty) Ltd COVER PICTURE: Arthur go Mutambara - The Helen Suzman Foundation would like to thank the Nelson Mandela Foundation for Arthur GO Mutambara is the leader of the breakaway faction of Zimbabwean making these images of Nelson Mandela’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). hands available. The Nelson Mandela Foundation has used the images of Nelson Mandela’s hands as part of its efforts to Tito Mboweni - brand a living legacy and dialogue focus for Tito Mboweni is the Governor of the South African Reserve Bank. the NMF in 2007. 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Card no Card type Mastercard Visa Expiry date CCV no FOCUS 50 EDITIONS 50issues FOCUS celebratesof is 50th edition asfocus former President Nelson Mandela turns 90. The HSF’s quarterly political journal was born in the forth quarter of 1995 during the birth-pangs of our new post-1994 democracy. A look back
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