President Cyril Ramaphosa with the Founder and Executive Trustee of the Biko Foundation, Nkosinathi Biko; Principal and Vice Chancellor of Unisa, Professor Mandla Makhanya at the 19th Annual Steve Biko Memorial Lecture in Tshwane. (Twitter, PresidencyZA)
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14 Sep 2018
President #Ramaphosa: So let us march forth, as Steve Biko called on us to do, with courage and determination to bestow upon South Africa the greatest gift possible – a more human face. I thank you.
President #Ramaphosa: But ultimately, we will not succeed unless we forge a new morality. We need leaders who serve with diligence and commitment, seeking neither advantage nor undue rewards for themselves.
President #Ramaphosa: We have begun the work, but there is much more to do. Commissions of inquiry, disciplinary hearings, criminal prosecution and lengthy prison sentences are necessary instruments to tackle this scourge. #BIKOLecture
Ramaphosa is done, gets a standing ovation from the crowd. Prof Fikenk
says ultimately the message was saying “buya buntu bethu. Our humanity
must come back”
14 Sep 2018
President #Ramaphosa: Now in the 25th year of our democracy, we must acknowledge with shame and regret that we have failed to live up to the standards of the selfless leaders that came before us. #BIKOLecture
President #Ramaphosa: As we emerge from the corruption of apartheid, we are called upon to forge a new morality, which places the interests of the people above the narrow interests of the individual. #BIKOLecture
Ramaphosa: It is our responsibility to both confront deeply embedded feelings of inferiority that manifest in submission and also deal with the superiority that is expressed in supremacy #BikoLecture
Ramaphosa - Steve Biko led people, not parties. His thoughts
continue to guide us in our quest for a true humanity. It is this humanity and
moral compass that we must find.
14 Sep 2018
President #Ramaphosa: We must build a society that is defined by compassion, selflessness and generosity. We must give effect to the expression: ‘From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.’ #BIKOLecturepic.twitter.com/kO5Pyb80q7
#BikoLecture Ramaphosa bringing the Guptas into his lecture without naming them speaks of “one family and their associates” moves on to say they’ve begun the work of cleaning but commissions of inquiry, cleaning up state institutions & lengthy prison time necessary @TeamNews24
President #Ramaphosa: Inequality severely constrains our ability as a country to realise our potential, it limits growth, perpetuates hardship and promotes instability. We must therefore become a society defined by solidarity, not competition. #BIKOLecture
President #Ramaphosa: Our quest for a true humanity requires that we end poverty. No society can be free for as long as any member is denied the basic requirements of life – food, shelter, water, security, work. #BIKOLecture
President #Ramaphosa: The assertion by women of their own power and agency is the foundation on which we must work together to eradicate all forms and manifestations of patriarchy.
President #Ramaphosa: As black consciousness is a necessary part of the response to racism, so too is the self-affirmation of women necessary for the achievement of gender equality.
President #Ramaphosa: The struggle against patriarchy is therefore a struggle against the social norms, the attitudes and the thoughts that embolden men and enfeeble women.
President #Ramaphosa: Women bear the brunt of centuries of discrimination and oppression, imposed in this case not by a colonial power, but by the traditions, practices and institutions of the societies into which they were born.
President #Ramaphosa: Even today, we observe, in ways both subtle and crude, the residue of white entitlement and black submission. Thanks to the advent of social media, the prejudice that lurks below the surface is, from time to time, given virulent expression. #BIKOLecture
President #Rampahosa: While some regard black consciousness as a historical artefact, the ideas that Steve Biko propounded are timeless and universal. They are no less powerful and no less relevant today. #BIKOLecture
President #Ramaphosa: Biko taught us the revolutionary value of the confidence of black people in their own humanity. He spoke of the debilitating effect of centuries of colonialism on the psyche of black people, making them complicit in perpetuating a sense of inferiority.
President #Ramaphosa: It was present at the formation of the liberation movements, during the campaigns of defiance, the strikes and the stayaways, the armed resistance.
President #Ramaphosa: It is that quest – for a true humanity – that must lie at the core of our every endeavour. For decades, this quest has been a constant companion to the struggles of our people for freedom, dignity and respect. #BIKOLecture
President #Ramaphosa: What Steve Biko lived for was to restore the true humanity of all people, black and white, and to build a society in which there would no majority, nor minority. There would just be people, free, fulfilled and at peace. #BIKOLecture
Ramaphosa: What Steve Biko sought to articulate was the lived experience
of the majority and restore the humanity of both black & white
14 Sep 2018
President #Ramaphosa: It was a life dedicated to the pursuit of freedom, equality and truth. It was the life of a great, but humble, revolutionary who fiercely rejected the false hierarchy of races. He spoke with a burning eloquence of the essential humanity of all people.
President #Ramaphosa: It was a life dedicated to the pursuit of freedom, equality and truth. It was the life of a great, but humble, revolutionary who fiercely rejected the false hierarchy of races. He spoke with a burning eloquence of the essential humanity of all people.
President #Ramaphosa: It is an honour for me to be delivering this lecture during the centenary of the birth of Nelson Mandela. Earlier this week, we commemorated the 41st anniversary of the death in detention of Steven Bantu Biko. #BIKOLecture
President #Ramaphosa: It is an honour for me to be delivering this lecture during the centenary of the birth of Nelson Mandela. Earlier this week, we commemorated the 41st anniversary of the death in detention of Steven Bantu Biko. #BIKOLecture
Prof Fekeni says alright, the point has been made, and Ramaphosa doesn’t
even skip a beat as he gets into his speech as one demonstrator shouts "Marikana!" and
"Biko wethu" while being escorted out.
#BikoLecture the younger Biko tells Ramaphosa he did well to give Mma Sobukwe a state funeral, “she was a national asset” says we have to learn to find a balance between party & state @TeamNews24
Executive Trustee of the Steve @BikoFoundation Mr Nkosinathi Biko says "if #Biko was alive he'd be 72 years old". The @BikoFoundation was established 20 years ago. I want to commend the many young men and women who have kept the board alive. He paid a special tribute to Mrs Biko. pic.twitter.com/7KAXa4LguI
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