On 19 October 1991, Malaika Lesego Samora Mahlatsi was born at the
Meadowlands community clinic, one year and eight months after
Mandela's release from prison. The Nationalist Party was still in
power, but everyone knew that its grip on political power would
draw to an inevitable end sooner rather than later. Memoirs of a
born free is a journey back through the life of Malaika Wa Azania
as she recounts the experience of growing up through the end of
apartheid and South Africa's transition into a democratic nation.
She was not born during the times of constitutionalised apartheid
but is still a product of an epoch of systematic individualised
apartheid. Her story is not a reflection of freedom; it is an
epitome of the ongoing struggle for liberation and emancipation
from mental slavery. The struggle of the generations before that of
the born frees was a struggle for political freedom and democracy
and was the foundation for revolution and reform but not the
ultimate goal. Malaika contests the notion of the born-free
generation when it is a generation that was born in the midst of a
struggle for economic freedom and the quest for the realisation of
the objectives of the African Renaissance. Now 22 years into a
democratic dispensation, Malaika describes her life as having been
a struggle to understand the "rainbow nation" and to salvage from
it something that renders her free. She did not find the pot of
gold at the end of the rainbow that she was told about as a child.
She has, however, through the Thabo Mbeki Foundation, found reason
to believe in the capacity of the people to escape the nervous
conditions that define Black life. She continues to serve the
African Youth Coalition with dedication as believes today, without
a shadow of doubt, that another Africa is possible. "Democracy is
impossible without political freedom, but political freedom is not
the ultimate objective of the revolutionary struggle. The ultimate
objective is economic freedom; the liberation of the masses of our
people from the clutches of economic bondage. But our people remain
in chains, so what about this generation which has the mission of
freeing them from those chains is "free"? What about us is
reflective of a "born-free generation", when our generation is born
during a time of the struggle for economic freedom and the quest
for the realisation of the objectives of the African Renaissance
agenda?" - Malaika Wa Azania.
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