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Erik de Ridder is an undergraduate student of civil engineering and economics at the University of Cape Town.

He firmly believes the pursuit of happiness, bound to the deepening of democracy, the proliferation of broader and substantive social justice, equality, and realization of peace and the fair rule of law, rooted in the principles of Ubuntu, to be the broader aspirational and categorical, pursuit of his generation.



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“Future, on canvas” | Congressional Forum Speech

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"This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease." As it were, Robert Kennedy stated this in a speech delivered at the University of Cape Town, 1966.

 

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