HON. MB SKOSANA MP

We commend the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and the Parliament of Australia for formally apologising on behalf of the people of Australia for the grave injustices committed against the Aborigines for more than two centuries.  

"We apologise for the laws and policies of successive Parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Aborigines."  

The forceful removal of the Aborigine children from their families in order to assimilate them into the white settler colonies has resulted in what is now known as "The Stolen Generation" A people marooned in political and cultural wilderness.  

In his book "The African Predicament" Kofi Awonoor recalls Nkrumah's perspective on a relative situation. "Unblessed with the arts of good government, material and spiritual progress, we were still regarded as representing the infancy of mankind. Our highly sophisticated culture was said to be simple, paralyzed by inertia and we had to be encumbered with tutelage."