DefendTheTruth wrote: ↑27 May 2023, 15:13
Nelson Mandela went on and transformed the Republic of South Africa from Apartheid-System to a democratically constituted nation, the most developed nation in Africa by now.
South Africa then went on and reciprocated the offer by training Abiy Ahmed to transform Ethiopia to a modern nation that can ensure its security needs and modernize the national security apparatus of the great nation.
Here is the result of a transformed nation, which can protect itself against all sorts of adversaries using the modern information security mechanisms it build over years, which was founded by Dr. Abiy Ahmed himself, now bearing tangible results.
How could a nation be transformed?
A nation can only be transformed by working hands and thinking minds. To get these two important resources it takes time, you can't obtain them over night.
A country can't be transformed by loud mouths that can only talk and produce only talks, no matter how loud those mouths may bark.
Abiy Ahmed, a man who transformed Ethiopia from ground up.
I'm cognizant of the fact that you're a cadre....so probably some of the things you say here are beyond your paygrade.
You tend to abuse, for instance, the word democracy. Leaving aside the various definitions of the word, 'democratic' government doesn't necessarily mean a reflection of the common good or effective government. Africa is, of course, busy with 'procedural democracy', for example elections, while they can't even provide basic services, which is substantive democracy, to the majority of their people. Don't even get me started on the 'common good' . Suffice to say there will be no common good without first forging a common identity, or without a shared or common history. Nor can common future will be fostered or envisioned without common identity.
So in the context of South Africa, leaving aside the racial chasm that still exists, the reality in that country remains, as one writer once aptly put it, the minority whites gave back the house to the indigenous, but still holds on to the house's vault. And that is the reality of Africa in the larger picture as well. You can't have sovereignty, let alone democracy, while your country's purse is controlled by others. That is why your ad nauseam talk of democracy rings hollow in African context.
BTW, if you want to defend Abiy, stay away from issues that you have no basic grasp about.