New Age2.png Blade slices into DA's tactics Nzimande says opposition party is playing a dangerous game by rewriting history books Dennis Cruywagen, in Cape Town, for The New Age, Johannesburg, 26 July 2016 A fiery Blade Nzimande has accused the DA of being busy with the dangerous project of trying to rewrite South Africa's history. Speaking at a lunchtime electioneering meeting at the District 6 campus of Peninsula University of Technology yesterday, the general secretary of the SACP urged students to know their history. If they were interested in history, he said, those who wanted to distort history in order to write perverted histories would fail. Nzimande slammed the DA's attempts to "hijack the legacy of Nelson Mandela". "We get worried as the SACP. It's very good that comrade Nelson Mandela is respected internationally, a global icon. But we must not forget that comrade Mandela was a revolutionary. And we must always be emphasising that. "He took up arms against the apartheid regime. He was the first commander-in-chief of Umkhonto we Sizwe in order to fight injustice. Now there are these attempts now to try and steal that image. The ANC took up arms as a last resort therefore it was "important to tell our own history". The DA, he said, was playing the dangerous game of trying to rewrite history and telling a story "as if there was no national revolution, no ANC". In Cape Town, he said, the DA was spending money on rich white areas such as Constantia but refusing to allow poor black children to study medicine in Cuba. "One reason I will not vote DA is because this province does not send bright, poor students to train in Cuba. They don't care about these black kids and the black community," he said. >From PAC to DA Nzimande had harsh words for Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille. "It's shameful: the mayor was even in the PAC (Pan Africanist Congress). There must be something horribly wrong if you were PAC and end up in the DA," he said to applause. He called for unity and better cooperation between alliance bodies such as the Young Communist League, ANC Youth League and the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union. Unity would not allow the struggle against the in-sourcing of services to be lost and be led by the EFF and others. Nzimande urged students to vote on August 3. "I am convinced we can reclaim this province and this city. It's a big job that must be done on August 3." <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] From: <http://tnaepaper.co.za/DRIVE/main%20edition/26072016/epaperpdf/4.pdf> http://tnaepaper.co.za/DRIVE/main%20edition/26072016/epaperpdf/4.pdf __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13859 (20160726) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/000c01d1e6ff%24c4a26100%244de72300%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
