Cde's Seroke and Ndebele The survival of the PAC in this century is largely depended on how it is able to prove its relevance to the general polity of this country. As a foot soldier of this movement from the 90's, I remember, prior to 1994, we succeeded in indoctrinating the masses the ideology of Pan Africanism. To retrospect, places such as Tembisa had more than 5 branches of PAC, this is just to mention one area. The East rand ,in particular, was replete with PAC structures, even though, it was not to the strides which the charterists had made. Today, I can still see the walls inscribed with PAC's slogans in places such as Katlehong and elsewhere. What was the story behind such strides ?. in my mind, I posit that it was our non-collaborationist stance during the negotiations era with a concomitant of withstanding neo-colonialism of the ANC. The belligerence of APLA against the settler regime should be accorded a credit. With our poor electoral showing of 1.2 % in 1994, which was far below the forecast of our detractors, who had believed that we would clinch a negligible margin of 5 %, we degenerated far lesser than that. I remember the NEC( just before the elections in 1994) contemplating a legal action against the Star newspaper for publishing such a gloomy forecast for the PAC. If the total of 240 000 people who voted the PAC were file and rank members, why did the PAC not retain such member and expand thereof. instead, the poignant reality was that in successive elections the number plummeted until it reached its nadir of less than 60.000 voters. The disquieting thing is that PAC has been plagued with nefarious schism which has never healed to this present day. Suffice to say that we have produced splitter opportunistic organizations such as ID, PAM and APC. I refer them as such because it appears that they were formed merely to benefit their founders with state's accruals, such as seats in parliament. On the other hand, one may argue and say: these organizations were spawned due to incurable melancholy of the PAC. In some places, you can conclude that the PAC never existed. In Daveyton ,for example, we have a place named after Stanly Mokgoba, sadly, most people who inhabit this place today do not know if there is an organization called PAC. How do we then realign the PAC and the masses. Remember, we would boast ' the PAC are the people, and the people are PAC' .how do we claim such people back ? We have allowed the ANCYL to fill the vacuum and steal our thunder by its feigned revolutionary antics to the ANC. The situation within the ANC and its youth league is somewhat redolent with the 1949 programme of action. I know most of us are reluctant to admit this reality. The fact that from 1994, the political independence has not liberated the downtrodden masses, our people are still living in squalor, 80 % of our wealth is still in the white minority and they still own 13 % of the land. Why don't we rise to this occasion. In the 1930's after the great depression, in Europe, the fascist and Nazis were astute to seize power from the weaknesses of the system at the time. to regress to my introduction, how relevant are we to our polity ?.I believe that the rivalry within our own ranks has done more damage than in any organization in this country. Non constitutional platforms such as conventions to all Africanists is, at this point in time, is of great importance. I have once called all wayward sons, the APC and PAM to come to the occasion. If all those who profess to be espousing Pan- Africanism can unite, a dynamic force would unleash, giving hope to the hopeless masses of Azania. Severed Africanists are a barbarian at the gate to the ANC. If the PAC unites, personally, I will be at my element.
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