Ghana's
success makes the Pan-Africanist day
Accra, Aug. 4, GNA - Dr Tshenuwani S. Farisani,
Speaker of Limpopo Parliament in South Africa, on
Friday said the return of Ghana to civil
constitutional rule had made Pan-Africanists all over
the world very proud.
He said most Africans wept when Ghana fell into
military dictatorship and economic hardships because:
"Ghana is the mother of African liberation and her
depression and failures are bound to have effect on
true Africans."
Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency,
Dr Farisani said: "Throughout my life, I have always
admired Ghana for her unrelenting support for the
African liberation movement and the projection of the
African personality."
Dr Farisani was a delegate at the just ended week-long
conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentarian
Association. He said the overthrow of Osagyefo Dr
Kwame Nkrumah in 1966 made enemies of the Blackman
very happy as they always used the misfortune of Ghana
and other countries as a pointer to the consequences
of self-rule in Africa.
He said during the days of Apartheid, the white
racists spared no effort in castigating and ridiculing
the African National Congress (ANC) and other
progressive forces and what they intended doing with
the free South Africa.
According to Dr Farisani, Ghana personified blackness,
independency, courage, refuge and above all the
rehabilitated African. He said he was impressed by the
modest achievement of Ghana in the economic and social
fronts and expressed the hope that Ghana would
continue to walk the path of good governance and
democracy. He said South Africa had a lot to learn
from Ghana to enrich her young democracy.
Dr Farisani said although the transition from a racist
regime to a multi-party democratic regime had been
swift in a sense there were a lot to do to raise the
standard of living of all South Africans. He said
South Africa under the ANC Government was already
experiencing prosperity among the black population,
who used to be hewers of wood and drawers of water.
He said under a broad black economic empowerment
programme, the Government of South Africa had
introduced various strategies such as tax holidays for
infant industries conceived and managed by black
people as well as encouraging joint ventures between
well-established white people and inexperience black
people.
Dr Farisani said South Africa would hold on to its
belief in the "rainbow coalition" where all races,
creeds and ideas are allowed to mingle and interact
with each other freely.
He commended the local organizing committee of the CPA
for "organizing such a wonderful conference where the
best of Africa has been on exhibition".