What Traore did in Burkina Faso was not coup d’etat – SA’s ex-President Zuma
*Says it was nation’s decision to free itself from colonisers
*As he visits Burkinabe president, talks about Africa’s true liberation
By BASHIR ADEFAKA
“I believe this country has done something wonderful. That’s why I wanted to meet the President, to talk with him and see what we can do together to continue the struggle for Africa’s liberation,” Zuma said.
Burkina Faso’s President, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, on Monday, received former South African President Jacob Zuma at the Koulouba Palace in Ouagadougou, the country’s capital.
The high-level meeting, attended by Burkina Faso’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré, focused on advancing the liberation and sovereignty of the African continent.
Speaking after the audience, Zuma expressed deep admiration for Burkina Faso’s revolutionary direction under Captain Traoré’s leadership.
He said, “I believe this country has done something wonderful. That’s why I wanted to meet the President, to talk with him and see what we can do together to continue the struggle for Africa’s liberation,” Zuma said.
The former comrade-in-arms of Nelson Mandela emphasized that Africa’s resources must no longer be seen as the property of its former colonizers.
“The colonizers still believe Africa’s wealth belongs to them. Let us now say that enough is enough, it’s over,” he declared, calling on Africans to reclaim their destiny and define their own path.
Zuma further noted that Burkina Faso’s renewed commitment to sovereignty and self-reliance has become a source of inspiration for all freedom-minded Africans.
He urged both Africans at home and across the diaspora to actively support the process of liberation initiated by Burkina Faso.
Defending the revolutionary movement that has continued to have in Burkina Faso, Zuma shunned the idea of calling the action of Traore and his team a coup d’etat.
According to him, “Our brothers here say ‘This is a coup d’etat.’ It’s not a coup deta’t. This country decided to free itself hundred percent from the colonisers.”
He described the idea of calling what happened a coup d’etat as that cooked up by the oppressors “to change the kind of calibre of players who were there at that time to remove them.”
Why? President Jacob Zuma explained that was “because they can’t see the difference. That tells you the problem we have.”
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