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--- Begin Message ---Dear Editor, Julius Malema, Fikile Mbalula and their colleagues in the ANC would have us and the entire South African public to believe that the "Sharpville Uprising" of 1960 was master-minded and organized by the ANC but hijacked by the PAC. Such distortions about the Sharpville Uprising and all other days of historical importance in the history of the liberation struggle are not surprising at all. They are easily rebutted and refuted by drawing Malema's attention and that of his ANC colleagues to statements made by the then ANC President Albert Luthuli in his message to the ANC Conference held in Durban on 10 to 12 December 1959. He discouraged an ANC anti-pass campaign saying the ANC was not ready, and that was more than a month before the Sharpville Uprising. Surely, this fact of history has escaped Malema's attention and that of his colleagues in the ANC. Again, just 24 hours before 21st March 1960, the ANC Secretary-General, Duma Nokwe in his media statement intended to sabotage the PAC anti-apartheid pass campaign, wrote: "We must avoid sensational actions which might not succeed because we realize that it is treacherous to the liberation movement to embark on a campaign which has not been properly prepared for and which has no reasonable prospects of success." (Sunday Times of 20 March 1960) [p. 81, The Hidden Side Of South African Politics, Motsoko Pheko, 2009]. The fact of the matter is that the ANC had no day of symbolic importance and historical and political relevance prior to March 1960 and still has none even up to this day. In fact by Mandela's own conscious admission the "June 16 Uprising was the work of imperialism and CIA." To Mandela "the Soweto Uprising was the work of American imperialism ... to stem developments toward socialism." (Lest you think I'm making up this story, I thus suggest that you must read Mandela's essay Whither Black Consciousness, City Press, 24 June 2001). Facts about the Soweto Uprising can be easily found in a court case presided over by the then Apartheid Judge David Curlewis - State Versus Zephania Mothopeng and 17 others (who were members of the PAC) Supreme Court of South Africa - South and Eastern Local Division. Judgment was on 18th, 19th, 20th, and 26th June 1979. [p. 42, The Hidden Side Of South African Politics, Motsoko Pheko, 2009]. Now how dare Malema and his Colleagues in the ANC make such idiotic and silly statements that "Sharpville Uprising was hijacked by an opportunistic PAC and that young people needed to learn the correct history of the country." (The Times, p.4, 23rd March 2010) Can he clearly quote his own sources of that history. What history is he talking about??? In fact, Malema's myopic attempts at obfuscation and mutilation of history will not succeed!!! Now who's fooling who??? Regards, Sebenzile Mlaza Kliptown Soweto 1811
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