The ACTION Support Centre Pays Tribute to Tata Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

 

We honour him and celebrate his life and legacy by empowering the people of Africa and serving all humanity in pursuit of peace

The ACTION Support Centre joins fellow Africans and the people across the world in celebrating the life of a consummate servant leader Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.

President Mandela inspired South Africa, Africa and the world with his vision of equality and transformation in society. Emerging from a painful past, he encouraged reconciliation, tolerance, forgiveness, true and effective leadership, including a culture of collaboration to deal with challenges. His legacy cannot be summarised in black and white. President Mandela played a significant role in helping Africans not only to imagine a future but also to begin to live a life where the most vulnerable and marginalised people would be free from fear and want.  The ACTION Support Centre shares this vision of a transformative society in which every person feels valued, respected, and protected.

We also remember him as an ardent protagonist of Pan-African solidarity, Pan-Africanism and African Renaissance. As we reflect 50 years of the formation of the African Union and the Organisation of African Unity before it, African people have a renewed belief and commitment to a politically and economically independent African continent.

The departure of President Mandela leaves us with a legacy that offers us an opportunity to reflect as Africans on the journey that we have travelled since independence. As advised by Frantz Fanon, the Mandela generation discovered the mission of their generation and they remained faithful to it and thus accomplished it. The task of defeating apartheid and colonialism was a daunting one and so is the task of addressing the many challenges we face today.  As we celebrate the life of President Mandela there are many fundamental questions we must ask ourselves, one of which should be; what shall we do to respond to the tasks of building a people centred African Renaissance to whose attainment, among many others, President Nelson Mandela dedicated his whole life?