This is one of six reasons why South Africans should turn their backs on the ruling party and support the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), says EFF main man Julius Malema (Juju to his friends).
In a letter on his website Juju says his isolation, banishment and expulsion from the ANC is a benefit to the struggles of oppressed and exploited majority, the working class and the poor of our nation. He gives six reasons why the ‘struggle’ must be pursued outside of the ANC, which he as now rebranded the ZANC (Zuma ANC). The rest is in Juju’s own words. It actually makes interesting reading.
1. The ANC is controlled by a white minority:
This reason is the most valid and reflected everyday on the decisions of the ANC to isolate and criminalise in its ranks, greater consensus that mines and other strategic sectors of the economy should be nationalised. A faction that leads the ZANC privately benefits from the status quo and will not do anything to change property elations.
At their 53rd National Conference, they have adopted a neo-liberal National Development Plan as part of the Strategy & Tactics Foreword, Resolutions, and Conference eclaration. There is therefore no hope that the now neo-liberal and right-wing ZANC can be changed from within, and anybody who believes so is day-dreaming.
2. “The ANC no longer exists, it has been changed into a Zuma African National Congress (ZANC)”:
This also is the most valid argument, because in the ZANC, what Zuma wants, Zuma gets. President Zuma is running away from justice through prolonged Court appeals and actions, and the ZANC will support him for that. President Zuma has used R300 million to build a house for himself and for his brother in Nkandla and Kwadakwadunusa, and even before the Public Protector exposes the corruption there, such an act in politically, ethically, morally, and ideologically unjustifiable.
Any person who justifies such callous and rapacious looting of public resources does not deserve to lead any organisation, including a burial society.
3. “The struggle for economic emancipation in South Africa needs new energy, exuberance and determined focus not trapped in conservative traditions”:
History confirms that all revolutions were led by young people and therefore revolutions are activities of the youth. At the age of 100, the ANC is too old to come with innovative, militant and radical ideas on how to better the conditions of our people, and in anyway, its historical mission of getting few black elites included in white power institutions has been accomplished.
4. “All existing political parties do not represent any radical alternative to neo-liberal and right wing politics”:
This is true, because in South Africa’s political arena, the political parties compete on the basis of who is more right wing than the other. In a recent debate around the Special Economic Zones Act in the National Assembly, the opposition political parties took platform to justify rightwing economic planning, as an illustration that they fall within the same category with the ZANC.
5. “EFF is the only platform that to could fight white supremacy”:
This is totally a reflection of reality, which confirms that the best way to undermine white supremacy is to equitably distribute wealth, land and minerals resources amongst all the people of South Africa. EFF will always expose the tentacles of white supremacy, and will educate the nation to break away from white supremacists tendencies and should not submit to continued harassment in all workplaces.
6. “The murderous acts of the ZANC regime should be exposed and removed from political office”:
With Marikana massacre, it is now correct to refer to the current regime as a murderous regime, which killed Mineworkers and now refusing them justice and proper settlement. As revolutionaries, we cannot be associated with a murderous regime, which kills defenceless workers in order to protect white capital. To this day, workers have not yet received R12500 salary they died for, and the murderous regime is denying them access to justice, while paying for the Lawyers of the Murderers. Like we said immediately after the pre-meditated massacre in Marikana in August 2012, the ZANC murderous regime will kill again other protestors in South Africa, and will try to justify the killing through Commissions of unbalanced Enquiry.