Africa cheers Obama victory

I welcome and praise the election of Barack Obama.

It is a shining example of how true the United States and its people are is to its/their constitution.

Hopefully, we (and the world) can finally put the race card to bed, or bury it once and for all under this success . It also illustrates that prejudice and racism is only in the hearts of a very insignificant minority, wherever they may show their ridiculous faces.

Who knows... if this country's people finally come to terms with tolerance and true democracy, maybe we will see a white President again?

Can we also adopt the slogan 'Yes we can!'

Once again the USA has shown that they are leaders ...
i just have one remark,out of those african leaders that congratulated Barrack Obama,how many of them are were put in power through free and fair elections..?
how many of them are respectfull of democracy and the rule of law and principle of freedom..?

The election of Barack Obama to the top position in the world has been long coming - it started with the election of Mandela to the presidency in South Africa in 1994.
Mandela was to give the world a legacy of hope for the down-trodden, he taught the world fairness,forgiveness and justice. All these traits the world lacked.
After almost fourteen years the world had forgotten what Mandela stood for - it was reverting to the 'good old days' of wars, factionalism and general evil.
The Americans grabbed this opportunity to bring back the Madiba legacy and hopefully, the world will be a more safer place with the young Obama at the helm. Long live Obama! Viva Mandela!

I am black and have in the past been inspired by many white people. This time I am inspired by the message of one Barack Obama as he embarks upon this great mission to change America and the world. His message is quite moving and really would wish him the best.

I agree with Sean Orsmond that we will one day have a white President in South Africa - to get there is a process and will be achieved first in our hearts and later in practical symbols.

The quicker we can conquer the many racial inequalities which still exist today the earlier we will realise absolute emancipation where we start to view each other as people than race categories. Both white and black existence in SA today draws heavily from fear and suspicion. ONE DAY WE WILL TURN THE PAGE.

Mugabe the senile dictator, must be cringing in shame at how democracy can be applied in other countries. Could he ever be as humble in defeat as John Mcain was? Can you ever imagine him congratulating Morgan for winning the presidential election?

Democracy is good it took about 24 hours to count over 120million votes and a country like Zimbabwe to count 5million votes it took 5 weeks. Were they counting backwards. Well done Obama the change you cherish should also rich a country like Zimbabwe.

Hopefully, one day South Africans will have also have a democratic opportunity to elect its own president and parlimentarians. The present system of only voting for the political party of one's choice, is undemocratic and ridiculous. The fact is that under the present system the politicians merely receive their very fat salaries and numerous tax free perks every month, but do absolutely nothing to earn it. Does anyone know exactly what these politicians actually do, except perhaps doze in parliment and seemingly dream of how much more money they can extract from the taxpayers. On the day that Manuel gave the Members of parliment an 11% salary increase and a 2.4 billion boost to their pensions, outgoing Archbishop Ndungane of Cape Town, announced that millions of South Africans are desperately starving. Does anyone know their constituent member of parliment? I doubt it. Yet these people also receive a constituency tax free allowance anually of R120.000, over and above their huge fat salaries and perks. In theory, Zimbabwe's system of electing their leaders, is far more democratic than South Africa. Who chose Zuma to be the next state president for the next possible ten years? Just a few ANC delegates at Polokwane. The ANC can never be trusted. It chooses a future president with allegations of corruption hanging over his head. We the people have no say. This ANC, who claim to be the only ones qualified to govern South Africa, are a liabilty and disgrace to South Africa.

It is people like Thandeka who are the future hope of South Africa. Now if only we could just clone a few thousand more Thandekas.

Maloso. The respective election of Obama and Mandela are not quite the same. A few ANC delegates chose Mandela to be president but the people of the USA chose Obama.

Note that the population of the USA is 300 million. 74% are white and only 13% are African American. The other 13% are other minorities.

Having Mandela as the President turned out to be just great. However, the prospect now is that Zuma is to be the next state president. The ANC has typically shown its arrogance and contempt to the South Africa people by choosing someone that has possible charges of corruption hanging over his head and he spends seemingly his whole life, at taxpayers expense, ducking and diving to avoid his day in court to prove his innocence of the alleged crimes.

Shame on all South African xenophobes!! If Barack Obama was living in South Africa, he could, in most likelihood, been a victim ox xenophobia!