ADDRESS BY YAA ASHANTEEWAA ARCHER-NGIDI
TO THE CIVIL SOCIETY UNMUTED COALITION
28 MAY 2026

THEME: “FROM LIBERATION TO INEQUALITY: SOUTH AFRICA’S HISTORICAL STRUGGLE AND THE REALITY OF TODAY”

Programme Director,
Leadership of the Civil Society Unmuted Coalition,
Distinguished guests, activists, young leaders, members of civil society, comrades and fellow Africans:

It is both an honour and a responsibility to stand before you today as we engage a theme that is deeply emotional, political, historical, and profoundly urgent: “From Liberation to Inequality: South Africa’s Historical Struggle and the Reality of Today.”

We gather not merely to remember history, but to interrogate it.
Not merely to celebrate liberation, but to ask difficult questions about what liberation has truly meant for the ordinary African child, worker, woman, and youth.