On behalf of the entire Ghanaian Society in Cape Town, The Ghanaian Student Society of the University of Cape Town will like to congratulate the national under 20 team the Black Satellites for their performance at the nineteenth edition of the FIFA under 20 world cup currently taking place in Turkey.The Satellites have been an embodiment of the values and ideas of our national pledge which embolden us to serve our beloved country with all our strength and with all our might. The Satellites surely turned calamity into victory. Though they had a faulty start at the beginning of the tournament, the endurance and perseverance of the Satellites saw to it that our beloved country qualified to the semi-finals till their gallant loss to the French. We say Kudos to these brave sons of the soil and wish them the best of luck in Saturday’s encounter.Whiles congratulating the boys and urging them on to greater heights on Saturday, we will not want the country to think that the lessons learnt from the conquest of the Satellites are just limited to the game of football. In a time of electricity and water crises, high graduate unemployment, seemingly worsening economic conditions and the experience of tensions from electoral disputes, this is not the time to despair or encourage divisions among ourselves. To quote a great man: “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”This is the perfect time to let the recovery of the Satellites propel us towards working together for the common good. This is the time to prove all the voices that say we cannot make it wrong. Let us sing songs full of the hopes and dreams that our present affords us. Let us conduct ourselves in a manner that will make posterity remember as people who fought the good fight, ran the race and more importantly kept the faith.Jude Kwaku Bonsu Committee member in Charge of Entertainment and Culture Ghana Society of the University of Cape Town (email: ghanasoc@hotmail.com)

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