Unathi Kondile, News24 User
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Mh mhmhmday to you!
Probably hummed Julius Malema as he stood at the East London airport with a whiff of dismay as his anticipated rental Mercedes Benz - at around R800 per day - was unavailable. Sadly Malema had to settle for a Honda Accord from First Car Rental.
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Mh mhmhmday to you!
As much as I am likely to be condemned to the throws of being an Anti-ANC subservient white master appeaser - I actually like the ANC.
The ANC was not always what it is today. It was born on this day in 1912 and named South African Native National Congress - an audacious toddler with ambitions to fight for the rights and freedoms of natives.
Today, on its 97th birthday many families will turn to their photo albums reminiscing over those that lost their lives in the name of the South African Native National Congress.
In its early teenage hood - in 1923 - the party later became the African National Congress. Tasked with fighting formidable injustices from an early age, it nonetheless took them on and eventually won in 1994.
At age 95 it began to suffer from Alzheimer's and selective amnesia as it started to distance its close family members. At age 96 it was prone to opportunistic uneducated infections which manifested themselves deeply and left loyalists dismayed.
And with old age also comes stubbornness. To reaffirm this the ANC policy advisor, Jeff Radebe, added that the party is still a "national liberation movement" which is still on a revolutionary quest.
And I agree - a revolution is needed, an intra-revolution that is, a revolution in which the party we once cherished can kick out the nuisances and unnecessary baggage. And maybe focus on recruiting educated, skilled, qualified cadres.
The history of the ANC is riddled with educated comrades or stalwarts who were pro-academia. But now we witness illiterates battling on intellectual turfs, searching for enemies as their mental capacities fail to realize there is no enemy.
If any enemy exists it has to be the ANC against itself. That's the problem with fighters and revolutionaries. Ever wonder what happens when the war stops and you're suddenly required to be an intellectual or thinker as opposed to a puncher? You end up looking for enemies. In the process you harm yourself.
Long Live the ANC and again,
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
'Mine 'mnandi kuwe!
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