South Africa is ready to tell the world, Africa and the region of the great Madiba Day on 18 July. This is one occasion that people of South are sharing the greatest wisdom of Nelson Mandela when he turns 91 years. This Day is also being mobilized for celebrations through-out the world. “It is time for new hands to lift the burdens” - Nelson Mandela, 2008.The Nelson Mandela Foundation has already started with initiatives to broaden the Day to other part of the world. It is encouraging that the Day will also bring meaning to the good qualities of leadership from Madiba to the People of the South.
It will be great to note with great concern whether the South African Development Community (SADC) in which its chairmanship is hosted by South Africa to embrace this Day as a regional goodwill of Madiba' integrity.
It is understood that President Jacob Zuma who just return from the G8 Summit in Italy and also chairperson of SADC will celebrate this Day of goodwill with the elderly in a bid to strengthen his call to make a different. This is the Day in which the world, Africa and the people of the South will witness what Nelson Mandela stood for so many years.
I am personal certain that the Day will appeal to all including the aged, youth, business, religious and traditional leaders, sports, artists and labour to join hands in improving the living conditions of the people of the region.
Madiba Day is only happening after Nelson Mandela met with fellow Nobel laureate Professor Mohammed Yunus last Friday, the Nelson Mandela Foundation reported in a statement.
I further hope that the greatest dream and desire of Yunus and Mandela to create a poverty free society and decent jobs will be shared and influence the People of the South. Nelson Mandela appeal to us all in many forms through his leadership and sense of humility.
I am deeply touched and so moved by a number of his greatest quality of leadership. I remember some of his emboding quotes at this moment:
1. "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world".
2. "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 it needs be it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die".
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