The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania works against all odds,
both internally, wherein a systematic program to sabotage the Party and
extinguish the light of the African revolution from within is at play, and
externally, working in a hostile environment dominated by the neoliberal forces
to deny the voice of the collective PAC leadership fair access to the Azanian
masses.
There is a running narrative of PAC leadership disputes at
the Supreme Courts of Appeal, which belie the democratic processes of the branch
delegates whose choice has been made in a transparent and fair manner at the
Congress in Bloemfontein on 29 until 31 August 2019. The PAC will definitely
overcome this hurdle.
This is because the PAC draws inspiration from its
revolutionary founders and their vision for change and transformation in a
settler-colony. We stand against an empire pushing for their selfish interests
of accumulation of capital and wealth from the exploited multitudes who reside
in the peripheries of a western-centred international finance. Our credo is an
anti-imperialist Pan Africanism.
The PAC unequivocally says that, side by side with the
African people, there’s a fight against our adversaries for transformation and
change, and victory is certain.
In the ‘new’ South Africa, the PAC outlook is consonant with
that of Mangaliso Sobukwe when he adviced that to achieve real national
liberation and genuine democracy we need to look no further than the Act of
Union of 1909, ‘that fossilized relic’ of settler-colonialism, and scrap it out
completely.
The first constitution of 1909 was created out of greed and
land robbery by the Boers and the English after their internecine war on
African soil in 1899 up to 1902. The resultant Vereeniging Treaty
rendered the African people ‘pariahs in the land of their forefathers.’
It led to the establishment of the Native National Congress, as a united front
against oppression and dispossession, whose struggle the PAC has consciously
inherited.
The second constitution was a declaration of the South
African republic by the racist National Party in 1961. The PAC correctly
campaigned on the home front and in international platforms that this was a
bogus republic for the benefit of a minority of white supremacists. The African
people and the international community agreed wholeheartedly with us.
The third constitution in 1983 was apartheid-inspired reforms
that sired the tri-cameral parliament. It made dummy institutions for so-called
Coloureds and Indians in a racist pecking order where whites dominated at the
apex of the pyramid. It recognised the bantustans as a buffer, if you like, at
the bottom of the pile, and named this farce a constellation of states. The
Azanian masses rose up against this charade.
The fourth constitution in the year 1993 was an interim
constitution drafted at the multiparty negotiations forum, popularly known as
the Convention for Democracy in South Africa (CODESA), where horse trading,
smoke and mirrors, and compromises, primarily between the Nats and the
Charterists, were agreed upon. It inserted the Property Clause that
concentrated the land in the hands of a settler minority, at the expense of the
dispossessed majority of African people. They pulled wool over the eyes of the
people.
The fifth constitution in 1996 was heralded by international
powerhouses as a miracle in the southern tip of Africa. It engenders human
rights and universal principles of a liberal constitutional democracy. But for
us in the PAC of Azania it is like a big bloated body on thin mosquito legs.
It is built on the foundations of settler-colonialism and it
has inevitably left poverty and inequality intact. It completely ignores the
territorial right of African people to their birthright; it ignores the right
to self determination of the indigenous people, and it opposes the creation of
One Azania – One Nation – One People, as the late PAC chairman Nyathi
Pokela (1922 – 1985) taught us to imagine the collective future of us
all. We believe that vision should be the bedrock of a new democracy
where white supremacy and its running dogs are completely crushed.
None of the compliant political parties in South Africa stand
for revolutionary change. The demagogues seem to abide by the adage that as
things change, they continue to stay the same. The PAC – a tried and tested
liberation movement – is therefore working against the grain. We have no doubt,
however, that we will ultimately win. Victory is certain.
In this manner, we welcome you all to the Official Website of
the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania. We look forward to an exchange of
interesting views with you. We commit that we will sweep no dirt under the
carpet. We serve, we suffer, we sacrifice.
Jaki Seroke
Secretary for Publicity and Information