A 16-YEAR-OLD SELF-APPOINTED WORLD AMBASSADOR FOR GIRLS EDUCATION POSES A POLITICAL CHALLENGE TO ZUMA. 

Malala Yousafzai challenged world leaders of respective countries to ensure that children receive a free and compulsory education.

Speaking at the United Nations headquarters in New York, on the day she celebrated her 16th birthday, Malala said that 21st-century inequalities and discrimination based on gender are unacceptable, particularly regarding education.  

In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other parts of the world, we are starving for education ... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond. 

This word-painted image sounds all too familiar, does it not? The talk about "free, compulsory, equal, and quality education" falls under clause #8 of the Freedom Charter.


Effectively, Malala, a 16-year-old girl, in 2013, is reminding Pres. Zuma, and the African National Congress of Tambo and Mandela, about a revolutionary promise willed with the words THE DOORS OF LEARNING AND CULTURE SHALL BE OPENED. 

Malala said, "this is part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands".

She has a Nobel Peace Prize nomination to her name. The winner will be announced tonight in Oslo, Norway.

The head of the Peace Research Institute of Oslo in Norway, Kristian Berg Harpviken, said that "a prize to Malala would not only be timely and fitting with a line of awards to champions of human rights and democracy, but also... would set both children and education on the peace and conflict agenda".

If I win Nobel Peace Prize, it would be a great opportunity for me, but if I don't get it, it's not important because my goal is not to get Nobel Peace Prize, my goal is to get peace and my goal is to see the education of every child.

She also urged the young people of the world to be active students, and get an education. She added: "Let us pick up our books and pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world". "Education is the only solution," she said.

She has written a book--an autobiography. It is entitled I AM MALALA. 

After all the support, admiration, attention, and fame from across the globe leveled at Malala, back home in Pakistan tempers are flaring against her. Her activism is viewed as the epitome of the free-world's "Trojan horse", out to do away with the Islamic way of life. 

A Pakistani politician, Maulana Gul Naseeb, painted this sentiment this way: "America created Malala in order to promote their own culture of nudity and to defame Pakistan around the world".

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