April 2024 marked the 30th anniversary of the primary post-apartheid elections in South Africa.
The Freedom day celebration is a reminder of the interminable sacrifices made by some people – notably Nelson Mandela and a number of many others, and the nation as a complete, to wean themselves off unjust segregation by the minority.
The ills of the Apartheid regime have been many and assorted, and deeply affected the conscience of the black race. There have been a bunch of discriminatory legal guidelines that drove oppression of the non-white inhabitants resulting in gross inequality, repression, human rights violations, schooling inequalities, sanctions, and financial exploitations amongst many others.
The treatment for Apartheid got here in lots of types however took a number of vital opposition, collaboration, each native and worldwide pressures within the type of negotiations and sanctions – each financial and cultural. This additionally led to the formation of the ANC, PAC, UDF, and the Commonwealth Eminent Individuals Group whose members included Oliver Tambo, Thabo Mbeki and had Olusegun Obasanjo because the spokesperson.
In web page 36 of the e book ‘ The Thabo Mbeki I do know’, Obasanjo writes that when the members of the Eminent Individuals Group met with Margaret Thatcher in 1986, she had proposed a reformation of the Apartheid system however he mentioned to her ‘ Look, apartheid is like Devil. If God felt there was a means of reforming Devil, he wouldn’t have pushed him out of his abode in heaven …. apartheid was not reformable; it simply needed to be exorcised’.
Like Apartheid, the dire penalties of unlawful mining (often known as Galamsey) in Ghana are each horrifying and brutal and have each a right away and hanging long-term impact on all sides of the nation.
Within the quest to make financial beneficial properties for a couple of, the entire nation is scaringly on the point of pure water scarcity from largescale air pollution of all main our bodies, meals manufacturing decline because of deforestation and devastating farmlands, and a number of many different financial, well being and social results.
In a current interview on Joynews, Prof Yoke, the vice chairman of the Ghana Medical Affiliation defined that ‘many of the meals out there available on the market as we speak could also be finally contaminated because of unlawful mining actions in rural areas’ – and that NO ONE is secure till galamsey is introduced to an entire halt. He went on to clarify the long-term results of those contaminated meals on our very important organs and the way the current sharp rise in kidney-related instances could also be linked to the consequences of galamsey.
Have you ever learn or seen the disturbing information and pictures of unusual beginning defects on neonates and the way NICUs in areas near mining websites are grappling with such instances?
It’s fairly outrageous to learn feedback and information gadgets on which political events have polluted extra water our bodies than the opposite – and the very laid-back strategy in addressing this wild menace.
I lately got here throughout a quote by Winston Churchill which states that – ‘an appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it is going to eat him final’ – when addressing the coverage of appeasement that was prevalent within the Second World Struggle.
However within the case of the galamsey disgrace, the entire nation is appeasing and placating ourselves into hoping that another person would remedy our issues.
Oliver Tambo, Thabo Mbeki, Olusegun Obasanjo, Nelson Mandela and lots of different ‘fathers’ of the anti-apartheid campaign knew that the duty forward was nearly not possible but in addition knew that permitting it to fester had extra dire penalties, – in order that they needed to make a name for a whole destruction of the merciless system.
GMA, NMC and a number of others could also be our ‘anti-galamsey’ crusaders on this case however this canker calls for greater than these companies, it might take our collective nationwide effort to talk up, write up and kick towards any type of reformation of this harmful menace.
Unlawful mining have to be fully exorcised to save lots of humanity, no matter whose ox is gored!