The Role of Scholars and Leadership in the Rebuilding the African Continent by President Thabo Mbeki

On 22 September the University of South Africa (UNISA) and the Thabo Mbeki Foundation launched the newly formed Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs (TM-School).
The Patron of THABO MBEKI FOUNDATION and Unisa Chancellor, President Thabo Mbeki delivered a speech and among others said;
• The TM-School will have to avoid the consequence of turning its students into corporate stooges.
• The School should pay close attention to ‘ensure’ that the university is the philosophical centre of society
• We must not allow the ‘big business’ of college to take in the way of students learning to questions everything
• Our aim in teaching should produce men and women to are both critical and creatives, our students should be encouraged to be thinkers and doers rather than accumulators of facts and received knowledge. This must be so if they are to be instruments of changes working towards the realisation of a just and consequently stable society.
• The School must strive to serve as a philosophical thought centre of society, to train the next generation of thinkers who will learn how to question everything in order to create new knowledge