• Africa: Mbeki Named 'African of the Year'

    allAfrica.com, 8 November 2012

    Former South African president Thabo Mbeki has been named "African of the Year" for his "persistent and consistent" efforts to avert war between Sudan and South Sudan.

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  • Philani@Umlazi
    Nov 9 2012, 04:26

    Time magazine (April-2005) listed President Thabo Mbeki as one of the world’s 100 most influential people. Describing him as “the most powerful man in Africa, the first person local and international call at slightest hint of trouble” Time said that President Mbeki has set out to “drag Africa into the international spotlight and spark an ‘African Renaissance’ that will bring democracy, peace and development-Institute of South East Asian Studies. Our sister country of South Sudan deserves democracy, peace and development. Our brothers and sisters of South Sudan deserve prosperity and tranquility. We salute the former president of South Africa Dr Thabo “Son of the soil” Mbeki.Philani.Lubanyana@EThekwini.South Africa.

  • ras sideeq
    Nov 9 2012, 09:12

    " THE MOST HIGHEST FORM OF HONOUR LOVE RESPECT TO PRESIDENT MBEKI'; "HE FOR SURE IS A MAN OF GREAT INTEGRITY AND AFRICA IS HIS BEDROCK"." I SALUTE THIS MOST HONOURABLE OF AFRICANS', HIS WORK IS NOT OVER AND ALL AFRICANS SHOULD STAND FIRMLY WITH THE PRESIDENT ALONG WITH THE AFRICAN UNION SO THAT AFRICANS CAN DECIDE THIER OWN DESTINY MAKING A FUTURE THEY SIGHT THAT IS FILLED WITH RESPECT FOR EACH OTHER LOVE AND UNITY FOR EACH OTHER AND TO REALISE THAT AFRICANS ARE MORE IMPORTANT TO EACH OTHER WHEN THEY STAND UNITED"!!!!. "THERE ARE MANY FORCES WHO ARE WAGING A ANTI AFRICAN UNITY '; THEY HAVE SELECTED CERTAIN AFRICANS TO INSURE THAT THIS PROGRAM IS USED TO KEEP AFRICA OFF BALANCED!!. "WE SEE THIS WITH THE ICC' WHO USES THIER PROPOGANDA GIMMICS TO PUT BROTHERS AGAINST BROTHERS TO KEEP CONFLICT ALIVE WHEN THE PEOPLE TRY TO BURY IT AND MOVE FORWARD IN MUTUAL RESPECT AND UNITY . WHAT WE SIGHT IS THE ISRAELI ATTACK ON SUDAN MAKING A FOR A VERY UNSTABLE SUDAN!!!!. THESE ARE ALL WESTERN ACTIONS OF DISTABILISING AFRICA". "WE SEE THE URGENCY THAT FRANCE IS PUSHING AFRICA INTO A WAR IN THE SAHEL REGION ALONG WITH MALI USING ECOWAS AND THE PRESIDENT OF IVORY COAST AS THIER TOOL OF PROXY!!!" . " THE DETERMINATION FOR WARS OF CONFLICT IS EMMINENT ,THE GREMANS HAVE ALSO PUT THIER OARS IN ,THEY TOO WANT TO SEE CONFLICT IN THE REGION!!!." WE SEE ALSO THE CENTRAL AFRICAN PROBLEM WHERE THE PRESIDENT A LACKEY OF THE WEST WHO INSTALLED HIM AS PRESIDENT OF A NATION THAT IS SO WEALTHY WITH RESOURCES AND SO LARGE IN SIZE AND THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE PEOPLE HAVE CHANGED WITH OUT THERE BEING A TRUE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT".. "WE SIGHT ALSO THE URGENCY OF THE WEST TO START A CONFLICT USING THE ICC AS A TOOL TO CREATE AND CRIMINALISE THOSE WHO ARE TRULY SEEKING SOME REDRESS TO THIER PLIGHTS"".. 'WE SEE THE UN BEING USED TO PERFORM MILITARY DUTIES ON BEHALF OF THE WESTERN DICTATORS!!!!! WE SEE THE GULF STATES BEING USED AS PROXIES TO STIR UP TROUBLE IN AFRICA CREATING THIS PROPOGANDA NORTH SOUTH DIVIDE FORGETTINTG THAT AFRICA IS A SINGLE BLACK CONTINENT AND THAT THE SAME ARABS WHO LIVE IN THE GULF ARE FROM THE BLACK BLOOD OF THE ARABS THAT INHABBITED THE NORTH CENTRAL WEST EAST OF AFRICA".. IT IS NO DOUBT THAT THE GERMANS ARE INTENT IN JOINING THE AFFRAY THAT IS ABOUT TO TRANSCEND IN AFRICA IF WE ARE NOT VIGILANT AND FOCUSED ON REBUKING AND NEGATING ANY MORE WARS THAT WILL DISTABILISE THE CONTINENT CAUSE MORE TRAUMA AND REDUCE THE CHANCES OF ANOTHER GERNERATION BEING AGAIN DISENFRANCHISED FROM SOCIETY ; WHERE WE SIGHT CHILDREN NOT REALISNG OR HAVING ANY HOPE OF A FUTURE ON THE CONTINENT!!!!".. THE MORE CONFLICT WE HAVE IS THE MORE WE PREVENT THE GENIUSES WHO WERE DESTINED TO LEAD OUR CONTINENT 'FROM PAST TO FUTURE 'FROM DEATH TO LIFE' FROM DESTRUCTION TO CONSTRUCTION". " IT IS TIME WE SUPPORT GREAT LEADERS LIKE PRESIDENT MBEKI, WE MUST ALLOW FOR MANY MORE OF THESE GREAT LEADERS TO INSPIRE HOPE AND LEADERSHIP ON THIS GREAT CONTINENT AFRICA" AFRICA IS ONE WE ARE ALL FROM THE SAME BLOOD THERE ARE 98% OF ALL AFRICA INCLUDING THE MID EAST WHO ARE FROM THE SAME BLOODLINE OF ADAM NCLDUING THE SONS OF ABRAM ISRAEL AND ISHMAEL THESE WERE ALL SONS OF THE SAME BLOODLINE WHO HAVE POPULATED THE EARTH BUT MORE SO IN WHAT WE SIGHT TODAY AS THE MOST CENTRAL REGION IN THE EARTH' ; AFRICA THE MD EAST"". WE MUST REMIND OURSELVES THAT THE BERLIN CONFERENCE OF 1895 WAS USED AS THE CATALYST FOR EUROPEANS TO DIVIDE AFRICA INTO THE MID EAST AND THE SUBCONTINENT".. WE MUST NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THESE BORDERS MENTALY OR SIGNIFICANTLY WE ARE ALL ONE BLOOD THE DESIGN BY THE WEST TO USE LANGAUGE AS A FORM OF DIVISION HAS EXPLOITED PEACE AND SECURITY ON OUR CONTINENT"!!!. WE HAVE MANY BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO ARE BLIGHETD BY THESE RACIST BIASSED AGENDAS THAT USES LANGUAGE TO DEFINE PERSONS AND COLOURS TO EXCLUDE OTHERS. WE MUST TAKE NOTE OF THE WOMAN AND THE MAN WHO HAS A CHILD THAT WAS BORN ALBINO;; ARE THEY GOING TO STOP LOVING THAT CHILD????? ABSOLOUTELY NOT!!!!!. SO IF YOU FOLLOW MY REAOSNING ,'THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA HAS CHANGED IN DEMOGRAPHICSBECSUE OF COLOUR WHICH PLAYS AND IMPORTANT ROLE IN WESTREN NATIONS;; 'IN AFRICA IT DOES NOW BECAUSE OF PROPOGANDA WE FACE AND THE RACIST POLICIES THAT GENERATE FROM WESTERN AGENDAS!!!!!. OUR CHILDREN OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS HAVE BECOME BROWN THEY LIVE BESIDE US THEY ARE STILL ONE AFRICAN BLOOD!!!. MOST OF WEST AFRICA NORTH CENTRAL AFRICA SPOKE ARABIC AT SOME TIME. WE SEE TODAY THAT ALL OF NORTH AFRICA THREQUARTERS OF WEST AFRICA SPEAKS ARABICAND HALF OF CENTRAL AFRICA SPEAKS ARABIC THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE COLOUR IDEOLOGY THESE ARE LANGAIAGES THAT USED TO TEACH ISLAM TO THE WORLD OURSIDE OF AFR4ICA. IT WAS USED AS A TOOL FOR EDUCATION TEACHING CULTURE MATHEMATICS SCIENBNCE ARCHITECTURE PHILOSOPHY THEOCRACY" AFRICANS MUST ARISE AND AWAKEN TO THE MULTIPLE GREATNES OF THE AFRICAN PEOPLE"" WE MUST RESPECT EACH OTHERS FOR THE GREAT CONTRIBUTION WE HAVE MADE TO HUMANITY NOT ALSO TO REMEBER THAT WE ARE FROM THE CREATED OF THE "ALLMIGHTY ONE SOVEREIGN DIVINE HOLY RIGHTEOUSS GOD OF COMPASIONAND INTEGRITY" .." HTESE ATTRIBUTES HE HAS LEFT FOR US IN THE DESIGN OF THE FREE CONSCIOUSNESS' THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO US. " WE MUST UTILISE THESE TOOLS AS THEY ARE FAR MORE SUPERIOR TO ANY TOOLS THAT THE WORKERS OF INQUITY AND ABOMINATION HAS USED TO LEVEL AGAINST US!!!. WE MUST NOW INSERT OUR INDEPENDENCE WE MUST CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THESE DYNAMIC LEADERS WHO HAVE AFRICA AS THE FORE FRONT OF THEIR AGENDA THEY ARE NOT SEEKING RICHES OR WEALTH THEY ARE DEVOTED TO THE UNITY AND LONGEVITY FOR AFRICA" THERE IS NO UILTERIOR MOTIVE THERE IS NO HIDDEN GAENDA".. THE DESIRE ONLY FOR PEACE SECURITY LOVE AND OVERSATNDING FOR AFRICAN HISTORY AND THE KNOWLEDGE THAT WE CAN ONLY SEEK AND FIND PEACE THRU LOVE DIALOGUE AND UNITY." WE CAN NOT FIDN "ALMIGHTY GOD" THRU THE INSTRUMENST OF SATN THE NOZZLE OF A GUN FIREARMS IS NOT THE WAY FORWARD !!! IT MIGHT BE FOR SATN BUT WHEN THE MIND BECOMES STRONGER AND REINFORCED SATAN BECOMES INSIGNIFICANT AND HE HAS NO POWER"". WE LIVE ON A WEALTHY CONTINENT AND WE MUST USE ALL OUR MENTAL RESOURCES TO ENHANCE OUR NATURAL RESOURCES THE DESIRE OF THE WEST IS TO STEAL AND OBTAIN OUR RESOURCES AT CHEAP AND LESS THAN THE VALUES THAT THEY ARE WORTH, THEY USE CONFLICTS CHAOS CONFUSION AS A WAY TO MISDIRECT OUR CONSCIOUSNES ; NEGOTIATING PRICES THEN BEOMES FLAWED AS THEY DISABLE US MENTALLY ,THESE TRICKS ARE USED TO DISABLE US FROM BEING THE MASTERS OF OUR WEALTH"".. IF WE ARE BUSY FIGHTING ALL THE TIME; IF WE LISTEN TO THEM AND BELIVE OUR BROTHERS ARE OUR ENEMIES THAN WE HAVE BECOME HIS VICTIM; WE HAVE NO TIME TO CONSTRCUT AND USE THE FACILITIES OF OUR BRAIN TO THE MAXIMUMJ POTENTAL THAT WE CAN USE'. WHEN THEY ARE ALLOWED TO DISTRACT THE AFRICAN FROM REACHING HIS GOALS WE MUST HOLD OURSELVES RESPONSIBLE; WE KNOW THEY ARE LIARS TRICKSTERS EXPLOITERS ENSLAVERS HYPOCRITS!!!!!!! THIS WE KNOW IT IS OUR UNITY TO SEEK TO REMIND OURSELVES OF OUR GLORIOUS PAST AND THE GREAT PEOPLE THAT WE ARE DESCENDED FROM""". WE MUST UNITE REJECT THE UNWORTHINESS OF THE WARS CONFLICTS DIVISIONS THAT HE WISHES US TO LIVE BY; 'WE MUST ADAPT THE MOST NOBLE OF QUALTIES' AND REMEMBER THAT WE ARE 'SONS AND DAUGHETRS OF KINGS AND QUEENS' AND THAT WE ARE A BLESSED PEOPLE' AND EVERY DAY WE FIND THAT OUR LANDS HAVE SO MUCH WEALTH OUR WATERS ARE FILLED WITH RICHES OF THE OCEANS,' WE ARE ABUNDANTLY WEALTHY!!!." HOWEVER IF WE CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THE PATH OF DESTRUCTION AND NOT CNSTRUCTION THEN WE ARE PRAISING SATAN AN NOT "THE MOST HIGH GOD". " FROM TODAY LET US EXALT THOSE WHO ARE OUR PEACE MAKERS' ; FOR THEY ARE SEEKING AFTRE THE KINGDOM OF THE ALL MIGHTY GOD" "PEACE LOVE RSPECT HONOUR RIGHYTEOUSNESS UPRIGHTNESS VISIONENLIGHETNMENT TO ALL OFD AFRICA MAY "OUR LORD THE ALL MIGHTY GOD" GUIDE PROTECT ALL AFRICA WITH HIS MIGHTY HAND"

  • Ola
    Nov 9 2012, 18:21

    Dr Thabo Mbeki is extraodinary man of diginity, that have Africa in mind. We must remember Dr Thabo is PanAfricanist to core. He deserve the award. We need more people like him. Mediation in Sudan is positive step to avoid another human suffering. We as Africa we need to learn the spirit of mediation. We are tired of civil war, we want to move on with our like every other human being. We thank Dr Thabo for this wonderful job, that he have done. We should never dance to west of Military intervention in Sahel Region of our beloved. We should come to table with our Tuareg brothers in the Northern Mali to solve this problem without any blood shed. Some European country are putting pressure on some leaders in west Africa to go to war. We dont want distruction and lost of human life in Timbkutu. West are always happy, when there war in the continent. We settle this proble with out military intervention.

  • Mourice Kadmos-Minyai
    Nov 11 2012, 15:51

    I just wanted to say that the comments I've read are beautiful and the kind of thing that's how the world SHOULD be. Not catering to the crazies and seeking always to ensure misunderstandings are kept down by communicating. That's how evil works. It plants itself in between peoples and promotes wars. Down with evil.