In Zambian watchdog Thabo Mbeki states:
“To ensure that [the youth] actually exercises the leadership everybody rhetorically accepts and proclaims is its due, the youth must organise and ready itself to rebel, so to speak.”Ironic from Thabo Mbeki considering his tacit support of Robert Mugabe when he was in power, nonetheless a welcome statement from an African leader (albeit former).Question, why aren't there more critiques of African leaders from their peers?
“It would obviously be unnatural that I, a member of the older generation, would easily and willingly accept that younger people, my own children, should, at best, sit side-by-side with me as co-leaders, fully empowered to help determine the future of our people,” he said.
He said the new generation should define its unique and historic contribution to their societies’ development, otherwise it ran the risk of betraying its mission which would condemn the continent to “the outdated views and prejudices of the older generations”.