The political Zoo of the privileged
“Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the
first importance for the revolution. The basic reason why all previous
revolutionary struggles in China achieved so little was their failure to
unite with real friends in order to attack real enemies. A revolutionary
party is the guide of the masses, and no revolution ever succeeds when
the revolutionary party leads them astray. To ensure that we will
definitely achieve success in our revolution and will not lead the
masses astray, we must pay attention to uniting with our real friends in
order to attack our real enemies. To distinguish real friends from real
enemies, we must make a general analysis of the economic status of the
various classes in Chinese society and of their respective attitudes
towards the revolution.” "Analysis of the Classes in Chinese Society"
(March 1926), Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 13.
The above citation is the line which must guide all the patriotic
forces while analyzing the Shikota formation. At no stage should we like
many among the society simple think that the shikota is the mere out
come of opportunist who do not want to be led by others. We must
remember that these people were political stooges who became “yes
men” in the previous NEC refusing to believe any thing that
criticize their min-god. WHY NOW THE SUDDEN CHANGE OF HEART? Chairman
Mao called us to make the analysis that will include the economic status
and the attitudes toward the revolution of the enemy so to distinguish
it from friends.
To start with the ANC is a multi-class organization, which is assigned
with the mandate of eliminating the National grievances in our land
which are as the result of colonialism and Colonialism. This in the
sense makes it to be venerable to ultra leftism and bourgeois
infiltration. As every one who except it aims and objectives can join it
(irrespective of class status). Having won the political power and
continuously doing so in each and every election, the imperialist were
bound to be attracted by ANC. But having played the role toward
exploiting Africa and knowing very clear that coming from the front the
masses of our people will reject them.
They then within the ANC, searching for dissatisfaction, disagreements
and hostilities so that the can ‘divide and rule’. They had done
this in our country in the past. They have done it in India, in Ireland,
other African countries, in Latin America and even in America under the
period of the so called “new world discovery” the form and times may
change but the content is still the same. It imperialism strengthen it
hold in the world and want to seize all developing countries and control
them through “puppet government”
It is under this that the ANC (before Polokwana)was turned in to
election vehicle, with masses being turned in to voting caws, no
debates, no political development initiatives. The state must be the
centre of everything. The ANC must follow the state. The was even talks
within the post Polokwane ANC which say’s that simple because of it
research effectiveness the State must be the centre and the ANC must
take a line from it.
The Polokwane congress in the other hand wanted the ANC that is rooted
in the masses. The ANC which is not an electoral machine, which
understand that, the masses of our people are their own liberators and
thus must be equipped with the necessary tools so that they liberate
themselves. They do not need a min-god in a form of the state to do
that. The ANC walk-outs were the sons and daughters of the white
monopoly capitalism, who pray that one day capitalism will co-opt them.
Capitalist want to patronize does who are in power, they do not care
who that is, as long as he is able to deliver the political power to
them, he becomes the employee. Once you lose the political privilege you
are swiftly kicked out. You became a spend force and capitalist then
look for new emerging stars. (Thus firstly Shikota is the agent of
capitalist system)
The white farmer who decided to join this vehicle of devastation Mr.
Grobler told delegate in the Convention to the convention the
following.” Our policy about agriculture, to produce food, and
secondly the way you intend handling affirmative action, which would not
discriminate against anyone." Is what pushed him to join COPE. A
lazier-fare policy on land redistribution, and the revisal of the policy
that is aimed at redressing the inequity of the past is the good reason
to join COPE.
(Secondly) Shikota is the solidarity spring of the former president of
the ANC. Under the leadership of Terror Lekota, the political mayhem
escalated to what can be characterized as a cabal behind the cult of an
individual (Thabo Mbeki) at the expense of organizational principles and
its longest standing fundamental principle on democratic centralism.
The ANC and the MDM has experienced yet another political mischief led
by its former National Chairperson who sights the betrayal of the
Freedom Charter and disregard for judiciary system by the current ANC
leadership. Albeit the fact that Lekota and co. were not able to make it
in the ANC NEC in Polokwane, the opportunistic praises of the Freedom
Charter and the Judiciary System which he is more than “prepared to
defend and die for” now, while in fact when he was Free State Premier
1994, ANC Chairperson for 10 years and Minister of Defense, his zeal and
revolutionary commitment to the Freedom Charter remains barely
discernible:-
1. Given the fact that this amount of political deployments put him
into greener pastures as an individual and thereby becoming media
magnetism and owning a multitude of wine empires in the Western Cape, it
is not surprising that he had to mechanically render a temporary divorce
from the Freedom Charter. Infact while he was Minister of Defense,
Lokota was one among key officials who vehemently denied South African
National Defence Force employees their right to establish and join a
union.
2. His loudest voice has never been heard on the slow pace in South
Africa’s progress on Land Reform to which the Freedom Charter and the
2005 resolutions of the Land Summit are clearly reflecting.( the white
farmers are joining him for this reason now)
3. Again, his loudest voice on daily violation of farm-workers’
rights and wholesale privatization of State co-operations in the
aftermath of the1996 GEAR economic policies adopted against the RDP by
the government he served and the ANC he chaired for 10 years, is nowhere
to be heard.
Is it not the right time for ANC members and South Africans in
general to ask themselves: - Why did Lekota and Co. chose to resign from
cabinet after the recall of the then State President from office, why do
they choose to cry foul of the ANC’s loyalty to the Freedom Charter
and the Judiciary System immediately after they were dealt with by the
democratic process in the ANC’s 2007 Conference? (Notwithstanding the
fact that some among his company are a by-product of the 2006 Cosatu and
2007 SACP National Congresses)
Put blatantly, these questions result to a considerable amount of
foolproof that Terror and Co. are nothing but a bunch of political
bandits who masqueraded as revolutionaries while in fact disguising
their lust for power and self-enrichment through political office.
History will correctly condemn their scandalous tactics as it did too
many forces of counter-revolution in the history of our revolution. The
less said about them the better. We expose this opportunism within
Shikota to fully show that they were a ripe ground for imperialist It
neither accidental nor narrowly opportunism that gave birth to the
decedents but it was the well oiled program of the enemy to destroy us.
As Chairman Mao told us many years ago we must study the class status
and attitude toward the revolution of the enemy so to distinguish it
from real friend. If you look through the needle you find nothing but
the fact that Shikota is a political Zoo of the elite, who blow the
trumpet of the white monopoly capitalism.
Mafika Damane Mndebele is the Provincial deputy secretary of YCL and
SASCO Provincial Deputy Chairperson (in KwaZulu Natal) writing in his
personal capacity.
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