PAC President Reply to SONA

Date: 18 February 2020

The party of land and revolution is not surprised by the blank speech you gave as it is characteristic of the rolling blackouts that we are experiencing in this country. From Thuma mina, to khawuleza and now to qima mabone!!

On the 21 March 2020 it will sixty years since the Positive Action Campaign led by PAC was launched and the Fascist National Party regime in an act of criminality massacred our people at Sharpeville and Langa, having swallowed the NP the same concomitant action was taken against the workers of Marikana by the ANC. The people of Sharpeville, the students and workers of SOWETO, the people of Boipatong, the Mpendulo twins and three others, including the 5years old in Umtata that Verwoed to de Klerk murdered and accepted capability without cause await justice.

Mr. President you promised a new city but as we speak the people of eGCUWA, Qwaqwa, Cradock, Ditsobotla, Makhanda and Sekhukhune do not have water. If you can’t provide simple running tap water in areas that had have pipes and had water in the past, what new megacity are you going to build? Mme Sisulu has been crisscrossing the country lying to our communities about water provision to no end, instead NGO’s have taken the role of borehole provision. The lies must stop now. #TheAzanaiapeopledeservebetter.

As we are in this house the university of KZN is burning, thousands of students cannot register in various universities and colleges, thousands more cannot graduate as they are owing universities, kodwa mongameli you promising a new university. A new university is not needed but proper curriculum planning and the decolonisation of the education system to respond to the needs of our people and for the development of our stolen land that must be returned. As it is, the two new universities have not even reached their capacity and potential wena ubusy no Mr not so sharp Blade Ndzimande niphupha nge enye university.

Graduates cannot get jobs and are lost to the economy which itself just in the first month has shed more that 100 000 jobs from mining, production to State owned enterprises. Your speech is characteristic of PRESCHOOL STAGE PRODUCTION. The 720 000 students you are said you funding comes at a great personal cost and tragedy, the NSFAS is in disarray, Students have to beg university administrators, NFSAS controllers and the entire system to gain their right to education. They have to proof their poverty this akin to the system of apartheid where then to be black was criminal now to be poor is worse less than human, your government seems to thrive on this indignity that poor students suffer. #TheAzanianstudentsdeservebetter. #Feesmustfallnow

Currently there are massive rolling blackouts proudly brought to us by myANC, this after consistent looting of the ESKOM by deployees of your movement. Similarly Denel, PRASA, even NECSA has fallen into disarray. As for SAA the drama unfolding there shows the lack of leadership from all quarters in government all this happening whilst you busy building air castles.

The problems of SOEs are deep, structural, and cannot be solved under the current capitalist system. They cannot be solved by hiring politicians to oversee SOEs; or by hiring CEOs who have no technical expertise rnning these entities; or by treating corruption with romantic hands; or by hiring morally and ideologically bankrupt individuals. The people of South Africa should have a right to elect their ministers, especially those of public enterprises, Treasury, and minerals and energy. You should not have power and privilege to hire and fire as you please.

The people should have that sole right. But corruption of SOEs should be treated as treasonous, punishable by life imprisonment. The money used for the state capture commission should be deployed to the prosecution and investigation services and we must see arrests instead of confessions. Judge Zondo is not an Archbishop to hear confessions, phambili nga ma oroange overall.

We want that Mr Ramaphosa, the man of concomitant action on killing the Marikana workers declare:

• The immediate return of the land to the people of AZANIA without any cause or action. The land was stolen the land must be returned.

• Because of the Cruel history that the speaker used to defend de Klerk as a former president, he accords Robert Magaliso Sobukwe same privileges posthumously as that of President of occupied Azania. Apartheid imprisoned and killed Sobukwe because he was the President of the African people.  #WearethevoiceofSobukwe,
• The immediate pardon and release of all Apla prisoners and former liberation fighters still incarcerated. #Aplasoldiersdeservesbetter.
• All audio, electronic voice and visual recordings of Sobukwe be unbanned with immediate effect. Apartheid banned Sobukwe’s voice because he embodied the aspiration of uhuru of the African people, the ANC bans Sobukwe because he inspires the masses of our people.

• Lastly the arrest of de Klerk for ordering the killing of the Mpendunlo twins and three other in Umtata in 1993.