Struggle activist and theologian Dr Allan Boesak gave a memorial lecture at the District Six Museum in celebration of late minister of justice Dullah Omar and late Judge Essa Moosa’s contribution to the law in South Africa.Boesak called on all South Africans to use their agency as citizens to claim back their pride in the country. Boesak’s speech centred around what it means to be proudly South African today, as well as the values of servanthood demonstrated by the two stalwarts.
“The ANC is in no position right now to say to the people ‘Be like us’. We as the people must raise a new standard. We must raise a new way of living. We must raise a new set of goals and priorities and take our agency into our own hands as we used to do. And we must say to the government: ‘If you want to save yourself, you better follow us’,” said Boesak.
Recalling the lives of the two struggle stalwarts, Boesak said Omar and Moosa “personified and defined what should be unabashedly striven for and held up as a gold standard for us in our lives and the life of our nation – patriotism undefiled by cynicism; comradeship elevated by companionship; friendship purified by fire; political commitment layered with personal integrity; love for our people bridled by love for compassionate justice. That is what it means to be proudly South African.
According to Boesak the “culture of corruption, the mindless self-indulgence of some of the rich and powerful and the instant gratification and deception that we now call state capture is simply a symptom of a deeper sickness of the disdain for the poor”.
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