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We are on Agenda 2063 Aspiration 3. It is a stabilizing anchor for the other 6.
Aspiration 1. A Prosperous Africa Based on Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development
Aspiration 2. An Integrated Continent, Politically united and based on the Ideals of Pan Africanism and Vision of African Renaissance
Aspiration 3. An Africa of Good Governance, Democracy, Respect for Human Rights, Justice and the Rule of Law
Aspiration 4. A Peaceful and Secure Africa
Aspiration 5. Africa with a Strong Cultural Identity, Common Heritage, Values and Ethics
Aspiration 6. An Africa Whose Development is people driven, relying on the potential of the African People, particularly its Women and Youth and well cared for children
Aspiration 7. Africa as a strong and influential global partner
In Agenda 2063, political aspirants and parties are supposed to encourage their parties and candidates to adopt Agenda 2063 in their manifestos. Whether Agenda 2063 political literacy is ongoing is an awareness and sensitization platform in itself. Some political candidates have never heard of it.
Just because President Emmerson Mnangagwa (Ngwena- the Crocodile) and the LaCoste team outfoxed the opposition, the dispersed G40, with military-assisted regime change in Zimbabwe does not mean copycats may be successful taking mobs into the streets as the process that was accepted in a more ambivalent SADC. It is highly unlikely the cleverly adapted choreography would have advanced to the green light in ECOWAS today.
The army, with Armour Tanks, do not catch thieves to save the country in that manner. In the aftermath of this political illiteracy of the masses, the country woke up to reality. This week, another street protest is happening, targeting the removal of military people from election reform processes, among other demands.
Civil society organizations, under the banner of the Crisis In Zimbabwe Coalition, are planning a demonstration in the streets of Harare demanding full electoral reforms before the 2018 elections are held. According to reports in ZimEye, the Crisis In Zimbabwe Coalition Chairman, Rashid Mahiya, told the news outlet in a statement that the demonstration will be held on Thursday and a petition delivered to the parliament and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, among other institutions.
The ballot box is still the supreme way. Do it like the "King of Cotton" - President Patrice Talon of Benin who made his transition from fugitive to the presidency in Teflon-like feats and reconciliation - hugs with his mentor-turned enemy-and back to friends, with former President Boni Yayi after he won, defeating Mr. Yayi's Vice President and his anointed successor, Mr. Lionel Zinsou of the then ruling party.
Politics should not be blood sports business in Africa - do or die; win, steal the ballot or destabilize the country.
Do not forget, we will be back with what should go into the book of political maturity modeled by President Uhuru Kenyatta and the Rt. Honorable Raila Odinga of Kenya and from the golf course...style in substance.
Here comes Botswana....
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18 months ahead of the constitutionally mandated election for his successor, former President Ian Khama stepped down and existed the stage with flair and in style. On April 1, 2018, the retired army general handed power to his deputy, Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi .
The fifth President of Botswana, Mokgweetsi Masisi, takes the oath of office. Tradition Holds
The change of guard occurred more than a year before the election under Botswana's constitution that limits a President to two five-year terms. Former President Khama was serving his last five year term.
Former President Festus Mogae of Botswana On April 1, 2008, Botswana's 3rd President, Festus Mogae, stepped down before the end of his second term - the last he was allowed under the constitution. That paved way for his deputy, Seretse Ian Khama, son of Botswana's first President Sir Seretse Goitsebeng Maphiri Khama, to take over.
"I retire a proud citizen," the outgoing President Mogae said at a farewell rally on Saturday, March 26, 2008. "Let me advise those leaders in similar circumstances: Leave when the time for you to leave comes, and you will be embraced with love by your people." Outgoing President Khama with the people in March 2018
In his farewell tour since December 2017, outgoing President Ian Khama visited all the 57 counties and addressed the last rally in his village of Serowe before he officially handed over the reins of power to his successor. " Regarding the future president, who is Vice President Mokgweetsi Masisi "I chose him because he is a very intelligent person, he is a governance expert, a dignified politician and an expert on culture, he knows the traditions, the cultures and everything that concerns Botswana: He's knowledgeable, and ever since I have been working with him, he has never disappointed me, not even once," President Ian Khama said. Change of guard: the new President Masisi waves. President Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi of Bostwsana
Masisi, 55, is a trained teacher who worked for the United Nations Children's Fund as an education project officer for eight years until 2003 and was elected lawmaker in 2009. He served as Minister of Public Affairs from 2011 until 2014 when President Khama appointed him to the post Minister of Education, a position he held until he rose to the seat of the Vice Presidency.
The new President will lead the diamond rich Southern African nation heralded as a beacon of African democracy and sound economic management. It faces a daunting task of reducing the country's dependence on diamonds.
In the 1970s, Botswana was one of the world's poorest countries. The landlocked nation of 2.2 million people transformed itself into one of the fastest-growing economies by generating about $3 billion a year in diamond sales, to become one of the world's biggest producers, and attained middle-income status.
Diversity in Botswana's economy is needed as the collapse in commodity prices in 2014 sent the economy into recession three years ago. Growth had slowed to an annual rate of 1.8% by September last year, and hindered with the closure of the state-owned BCL copper/nickel mine in October 2016.
In its article, titled Who is Botswana's new President Mokgweetsi Masisi?, Mail and Guardian newspaper says the new President is "earnest, highly educated, elitist and remote, President Mokgweetsi Masisi lacks the charisma of Botswana's former president Ian Khama."
There are other views. "The business community sees him as being more business-friendly so that should work well for the economy. He seems to be more likely to come up with regulation that enables more economic activity," said RMB Botswana economist Moatlhodi Sebabole.
"He is well versed with current challenges that the country is facing and I am sure he is quite capable of delivering," said Mothusi Sename, a 41-year-old taxi driver in Gaborone. |
On another lane on Agenda 2063, African countries are talking about UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) but completely totally oblivious of the fact that all the 17 SDGs are already incorporated into the corresponding Agenda 2063 Goals in what is called the Common African Position on the SDGs that both the UN and Africa acknowledge.
In December 2015, Mr. Maged Abdelaziz , from Egypt, the UN Secretary Special Adviser on Africa gave an interview to explain the harmony between the SDGs and Agenda 2063 Goals: http://conta.cc/2usrXYy
What is the point? For Member States or Regional Economic Communities, addressing the SDG and Agenda 2063 Goal is a simultaneous process; not separate or parallel processes.
SDG 1 is Agenda 2063 Goal 1: Priority 1 SDG 2 is Agenda 2063 Goal 1: Priority 2
SDG 3 is Agenda 2063 Goal 3: ClickSDG 4 is Agenda 2063 Goal 2: Click SDG 5 is Agenda 2063 Goal 17: Click with added emphasis on Youth Engaged and Empowered Youth and Children on Agenda 2063 Goal 18 At one time, this publication checked and found out that the Ghana's budget has Agenda 2063 funding. That is a best practice, including honoring African Liberation Day.
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