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Happy Birthday, ANC

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2009-01-08 10:12

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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Pieter Joubert 1/8/2009 10:26:38 AM
This fear about the ANC surviving and losing. There is no danger of that. However the ANC should and must lose its two thirds majority in Parliament, the only benefit of which is the ability to change the sacrosanct Constitution, our only guarantee (tender as it may be) of freedom. There is very little benefit to political parties (unless we condone the benefits of corruption) other than they must bring debate and balance to the system which would otherwise not be democracy. Let's pray COPE can.
malcolmx 1/8/2009 10:27:10 AM
Perhaps the ANC & Nelson Mandela will not make their 100th birthdays & both pass away peacefully. Like the old Oxwagon, the ANC has outlived itself. We need to see a new modern party emerge with moral & modern policies, who talk with actions & not tongues. Let the ANC be remembered in history only.
Just Me 1/8/2009 10:28:04 AM
.... you fuuny, you must get an award(",). though I do not agree with "Long Live the ANC", this article really made me laugh.... good for you!
Nomveliso kaMbanga kaNguta 1/8/2009 10:28:24 AM
In all fairness...though I am currently COPE-ing :) but the ANC has played a huge mighty role in the imancipation of the black human race & has been a huge example to the leaders of other countries and applauded as such when Tata uRolihlahla took the reigns as our first Black President. No doubt we have to give honour to whom honour is due, we remember the tears that fell when the warrior Chris Hani fell, and the way the leaders of that time worked with wisdom to instill peace.Happy bday ANC)
Juan 1/8/2009 10:33:45 AM
The first phase was to eradicate apartheid, which took them waay too long, considering theire numbers. Phase 2 should be to help destroy the legacy of apartheid (i.e. poverty, education, health, welfare, etc) but NO, after 1994, the 'comrades' became minsters, and allocated themselves posh houses, bmw's, jets, massive salaries and TOTALLY forgot about the majority of the poor people, that put them there in the first place! A anc freedom fighter gets amnesia when presented with money. - pity 'the masses' will never truely realise how the 'elite' is screwing them as much as the Nats did.
Ginger 1/8/2009 10:34:35 AM
The ANC has been fighting itself ever since. It took a first world country and turned it into a third world country in a few short years. It is looking to blame apartheid for everything. Apartheid has nothing to do with roads, hospitals and education (or Eskom). With its own track record of its own mistakes the ANC has proven beyond a doubt it is a failure. I think ANC is way too much like Zanu-PF. One party to hold the revolution but another needed to run the country in times of peace.
Johan 1/8/2009 10:39:06 AM
Interesting article unathi.The Anc must be commended for what they did in s.a,but,as you mentioned,they are filled by a poeple still fighting some "revolution",yet themselves are not even sure what it is they still fighting.The second best thing the anc gave us is creation of cope!I am afraid that is where it stops.The anc is a dangerous ex liberation movement,filled with hatefull people.It is an outdated communist movement i am afraid and time to move over!SA whant to move forward!!
Boni 1/8/2009 10:42:12 AM
Ai, Unathi, why this obsession with the ANC... just leave them to drown themselves, i guess they are thrilled with the free publicity you keep on giving them. get a life and start your own party!
nthatuwa 1/8/2009 10:43:44 AM
An honest article.Happy Birthday ANC indeed,but i direct his to Mandela,Mbeki,Thambo,etc.I would like to thank the ANC for what it has done for me would like its leadership now know that though I'm graetful,I'm not blind to the damage that has occured to a party that once inspired the world.I am deeply saddened that I will not be voting for ANC this year.Mandela and Mbeki will understand.Advice 4 ANC.If you want to liberate us,do it from outside,you did it better in the past.You cant govern.Happy
mafika 1/8/2009 10:44:22 AM
i think you should have just wished the anc a happy earthday & leave your 'selected politrix' to yourself. happy 97th earthday to the Khongolose wa Bantu & may they see many more!!!!
Cape Town Kid 1/8/2009 10:44:24 AM
A long arduous,challenging,hard,painful,serious, beautiful,fruitfuland incredible journey.This is MY ANC,an ANC which lives and ANC which leads! Long live ANC! Long Live!
Peter Maluleke 1/8/2009 10:46:09 AM
When will it be the anc dead day? This movement lost their values completely as did Zanu-pf from Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe is killing his own people just to play games with the west. Sickening. The anc sing war songs and interrupt COPE meetings which will lead to deaths of their own people who assisted them to form a democracy. Well if that is not Africa mentality! Well done Robert and anc for killing your own. Vote with your head not heart this year. Helen is the one. Anc steal our freedom. Helen was against apartheid and uplifted service delivery for all Cape Town people.
Jim 1/8/2009 10:47:25 AM
Congratulations, due to the foundation work done many years ago you have reached this milestone. Judging from the current crop of clueless, headless chickens ruling the roost I would be surprised if you reach a 100. Even the mighty Broederbond backed National Party couldn't make it that far, and they used academics....
Ands 1/8/2009 10:49:00 AM
Yes this continious revolution is tireing.Mandela was a true leader and his ambition to unite South African people was evident in all households. Now the rift is evedent amongst those pro ANC and those labelled coconuts and white racists are counter revolutionaries, purely because they no longer believe that this ANC is the answer.. So if we dont like what this government is doing are we supposed to stand by and watch? I THINK NOT!
WILDFIRE 1/8/2009 10:49:48 AM
Some good comparisons there Unathi. Imagine the party tonight , hey ?? All the lovely girls again and Mr Zuma and all...
Philani 1/8/2009 10:51:37 AM
Educated people started to tell us of their own legacies above those of ANC, and called themselves intellectuals, when poor people were looking for service delivery from ANC leaders, and started writing books praising themselves and stopped listining to poor and uneducated, forgeting that they are the ones who put them to power. So do'nt blame the uneducated, when they elect uneducated, at list they listen. Get your facts right, and for a change you may also write about DA, UDM etc.
Filemon 1/8/2009 10:52:20 AM
HaHa great article. ROTFLMFA. Jeff Radebe has got Mugabe disease. Go on the ANC web site and see when last they had a policy update. 1 in the last 14 years.
Louis 1/8/2009 10:53:44 AM
Enjoy your birthday, then prepare to be soundly defeated by the rest of the people in this country that wants to make South Africa work like it should. Reverse apartheid is NOT working!
mike 1/8/2009 10:54:27 AM
Great article. I don't think any of us can deny, even haters like myself, that the ANC was once a phenominal movement run by phenominal people, but the key word in that sentence is "was." Now its run by power hungry, immoral, uneducated morons who couldn't run a spaza shop. I still cannot and will never understand how ANYONE can think that someone with a std. 2 can run a country, its just not possible. How can your mind develop if you havent been to school? Idiots!
Point Blank 1/8/2009 10:56:56 AM
Put all personal issues aside, happy birthday ANC.
Duzi 1/8/2009 10:59:06 AM
Bud, great article and in my opinion very true! ANC was and can be a great organisation again but the leadership needs to change and the current leadership need to get over themselves. They have unfortunately made the ANC about themselves rather than about the people.
nthatuwa 1/8/2009 10:59:18 AM
CHILL,LOOK, UNATHI HAS GIVEN YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO WISH YOUR HOPELESS PARTY A HAPPY BIRTHDAY.SOMETHING YOU FAILED TO INITIATE.SHAME ON YOU MAN.
psycobabble 1/8/2009 11:02:47 AM
I like the tongue in cheek there."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".Sounds like a bit of senility there.Love it
mlungisi 1/8/2009 11:03:15 AM
Another Cope try to cope, shame on you Unathi. While so called intellectuals busy trying to bring back divisions in South Africa this time not based on race but on education and selfishness, we seeing people grouping and call themselves "smarts" and labeling others morons. The ANC continues to be the party for all South faricans. The struggling intellectuals can't even give a useful views on issues except bashing ANC. The couldn't defeat uneducated so they left.
Sven Gohre 1/8/2009 11:03:53 AM
On its birthday, the ANC should sit down and explore the direction that some of its members have taken. Also to review if back in 1912 it had any intention of becoming a communist party.
nthatuwa 1/8/2009 11:04:21 AM
If started a business,worked hard for its survival,never give it to you uneduacetd child who refuses to go to school,who lies in wait for your death so he can take over.Oops,those in the ANC don't have the patience to wait for your death,this destroy the party with the Mandela looking on.They are pld,what can they possibly do?Its a mess.Anyone who knows ANc history cannot possibly be surprised with how things are within the party.Remember how the Youth wing was formed?Rebellion.Remember PAC,UDM..
Meshack 1/8/2009 11:05:19 AM
Happy Birthday the movement of the people.May our orginisation live many cunturies to come.You have emancipated millions of people.You brought freedom and change into the lives of the masses who are now insulting and calling with names.I know that we will the next elections.
Smanga Zulu 1/8/2009 11:06:26 AM
Long live African National Congress!
mlungisi 1/8/2009 11:09:55 AM
What's wrong with you? You can say that to the ANC but not to a human being. Mandela is human being just like you, how could you?
M 1/8/2009 11:15:03 AM
Yes the ANC is it's own worst enemy since it was built on one thing and had to grow into another thing which it simply never achieved. Fighting a bush war is one thing, running a country is another. Now people within the ANC realized this and moved on. Change is good. The best would be if the ANC became a small party and another party emerged (I'm not saying it should be COPE) with intellectuals that might not know how to use a machine gun,but are educated/care for the country/aren't corrupt
May25 1/8/2009 11:16:58 AM
Indeed ... a happy birthday to the party that has freed us from the white racists that continue to live and oppress us. Nkosi Sikelela iAfrica. Amandla!!! Mayibuye!!!
The Beginner 1/8/2009 11:16:59 AM
The Voortrekkers will be proud that 16 December is still honored and in fact replayed itself in 2008. It was when so few conquered so many. Not one shot was fired, but Cope broke the ANC. It left them with a "river" of "blood" "streaming" out of the ANC as the former members walk out. If it was an ethnic motivated split, then the Zulus lost again on this day. They experienced Bloedrivier again in 2008. Happy "Bif"day ANC.
The kid 1/8/2009 11:19:09 AM
Now its run by power hungry, immoral, uneducated morons who couldn't run a spaza shop. Because the educated wanted to cling to power!
M 1/8/2009 11:19:28 AM
As usual you missed the boat, the paradigm shift. Maybe you should start working &stop studying&reading books about long forgotten revolutions. Current realities make good topics&finding solutions to them will actually make a difference, not babbling about some long lost past.ANC sink, sink, sink, let there be a new beginning.
jack 1/8/2009 11:19:53 AM
Go tell someone who cares.Viva COPE
Jayson 1/8/2009 11:20:07 AM
Yes agree the ANC stay is long over due we indeed need a party with mordern value's and principles that will build towards the future.The ANC did us proud by breaking apartheid but now it is time to move on we can't keep on dwelling on the past istime for a new party to tackle the new challanges that uor country is facing now.Its time for changed
The kid 1/8/2009 11:20:46 AM
Now its run by power hungry, immoral, uneducated morons who couldn't run a spaza shop. Because the educated wanted to cling to power!
May25 1/8/2009 11:22:10 AM
Indeed ... a happy birthday to the party that has freed us from the white racists that continue to live and oppress us. Nkosi Sikelela iAfrica. Amandla!!! Mayibuye!!!
Benzo 1/8/2009 11:23:26 AM
Happy birthday to you too. Although claiming the demise of apartheid goes a little bit too far. Yes, lobbying the guys in exile did but higher politics did kill apartheid. Remember that "apartheid" fell shortly after the Berlin Wall. Apartheid was a pawn in the "cold war" between US and Russia (capitalism and communism). Apartheid was propped up by capitalism as a usefull defence against communism. When communism was dealt with, apartheid could go. Little kudoos to the ANC.
MP 1/8/2009 11:32:42 AM
The ANC is the people's party with an unfinished agenda of emancipating all of us. It started with professionals and entrepreneurs thru EEA and BBBEE policies. Now is time to focus on the next tier, the poor. The agenda continues. COPE is a tribal party formed by a particular tribe and sprinkled Lekota, Shilowa, Shope-Mafole etc to musk its true identity. They can only with through a serious election rigging. Manual counting must be proposed once again, I know they hate it!
The Beginner 1/8/2009 11:36:26 AM
ANC members and voters simply love their struggle heroes. Shame. Is it because they themselves are strugglers, merrily struggling away in their struggle mentality and attitude? It's a wanna be likemindedness? Strugglers are wanna be achievers, but never reached that stage. Others have heroes which ACHIEVED. Happy creation day ANC. Your struggle to cope is imminent.
zolani sixolo 1/8/2009 11:37:29 AM
...I Agree with you 100%. Look no further than Zimbabwe. If i`m not mistaken. Pres. Mugabe is one of the highest qualified leaders in Africa.YOU BE THE JUDGE!!!
M 1/8/2009 11:41:13 AM
It's definitely not a party for me. Speak for yourself.
Win 1/8/2009 11:41:17 AM
They sure on a boat along with May25, the problem is that they got no paddle, the rudders busted and the idiots are heading for a waterfall with a bunch of rocks waiting for them at the bottom!!
Seema 1/8/2009 11:45:22 AM
There you go clear example of intolerance ! Anyone can form a party period - whether disgruntled , power hunger , whatever who cares really - Democracy didnt come with a cap or did it ? Forget the guilty trip approach . I am not COPE supporters but really would you guys says the same thing had it been Tokyo or Jeff who formed a party . People come and go , life change, people change thats life , focus on strengthing your Party positively ,maybe i might just vote ANC
M 1/8/2009 11:45:43 AM
Don't forget the people in the ANC that blow money on parties and luxuries for themselves & make sure tenders go towards their companies. You truly don't realize who is oppressing you in modern day South Africa.It's not about race anymore. But rarely racists see this.
M 1/8/2009 11:48:21 AM
You bring up an interesting topic. If these "revolutionaries" and "freedom fighters" brought apartheid to the fall why can't they move a dictator like Mugabe? Is it maybe because their comrades (Cubans/Chinese/Russian/East Germans) actually fought the real war? Did the planning? Funded the struggle? Took the lead? Makes one think.
Mike F 1/8/2009 11:49:48 AM
Lets see if the ANC can COPE with this truth. I've tried all I can but my common sense and my concience just won't permit me to accept the likes of Skwatsha, Malema, Blade, Vavi, etc. as ANC leaders, for the reasons advanced by you. The ANC I know has always been dignified, noble, humble, competent, democratic.
M 1/8/2009 11:53:16 AM
Are we talking about the same ANC here? Shouldn't they have looked at the poor from the beginning? Why is our schooling system then going down the toilette because truly, here is where it all starts to address the needs of the poor, GOOD EDUCATION? Shouldn't BEE have empowered the poor rather than a couple of fat cats?Is the new name (BBBEE) going to make a difference? This all happened during the ANCs reign!
Ands 1/8/2009 11:54:16 AM
But just to put a thought out there to all the ANC hopefools(sorry). I am still unsure of who to vote for(other than definately not ANC).However I would not want my party to gain a 2/3 majority either. It is just not a healthy situation for a country.
Ginger 1/8/2009 11:55:07 AM
I will salute Mandela - but when he dies the last of anything great from the ANC dies with him. Like Mandela is old and sadly past his prime - so is the ANC.
The Beginner 1/8/2009 11:59:40 AM
Benzo makes very valid statements about the role of the ANC on Apartheid. In fact, the white voters decided to end Apartheid with their vote in the last referendum in RSA, while the ANC was struggling. Their struggle have not reached any form of achievement. May25 and the like even struggle to realize such a simple truth, but then again, their heroes are strugglers, so they vote for strugglers. eISH. Happy X-day ANC.
Zolile 1/8/2009 12:01:55 PM
people of your type are the ones responsble for massacres in Africa. Please grow up and stop demonising Xhosa speaking people. For goodness sake, the ANC pushed the Lekotas. What are you saying about Vavi, Mantashe, Yengeni, Mbalula and other Zuma supporters who happen to be Xhosas? Are they too part of COPE? Please grow up and before posting such nonsense think.
Jonas 1/8/2009 12:02:45 PM
The ANC is certainly showing its age and needs to rest. Happy Birthday, and hopefully, good bye ANC. For those of you who want the revolution to continue or crying about emancipation, it shows that the ANC was not able to deliver either the ideals of the revolution or succeed in the emancipation of the masses. Definitely time for the ANC to retire.
Ginger 1/8/2009 12:02:47 PM
The educated - totally irrespective of colour, sex or religion - must be the ones to run a country. No country should have uneducated people at the helm. No company should have uneducated people running it. Education is good. There is no such thing as providing too much education. We need more, more and more. Look at our disasterous matric results. Anybody who doesn't believe in education must have rocks instead of brains.
Boerseun 1/8/2009 12:03:06 PM
Birthdays doesn't count, it's legacy that does. The ANC's legacy sucts badly, that's why I can never support them. In Angola and Tanzania they perpetuated crimes against their own people and the people of their host countries. Now it's xenophobia, reverse racism, corruption, cronism, support for dictators...seems evil is part of their DNA.The only day to rejoice about them will be the day they disappear from politics, same as the NATS.
Dave 1/8/2009 12:04:32 PM
You hit the nail on the head - the ANC's history needs to be celebrated! We don't want to see the demise of the ANC we need it to evolve. COPE will hopefully get enough support to hold it accountable and then it will have to adapt or die. Viva progress down with revolution!
Anon 1/8/2009 12:04:37 PM
"But now we witness illiterates battling on intellectual turfs" Well said.. @benzo - nice for pointing out a couple of facts that people tend to overlook. But well done to the ANC, love what they have done in the past but hate what they have become. They still cling to "the struggle" that is long part of the past. Move to the future and the better of an ENTIRE country and your support base will just grow.
sadike 1/8/2009 12:14:41 PM
Winston Churchill was one of the greatest politicians of our age, and he too was not educated,academically that is.The bare definition of education is not only centered around academic education which I believe does not necessarily make u an intellect.It does spark a depth of thought in the mind though.Therefore I do not think just bcoz Zuma does not have a B.Com will make him a bad president. My view nje. ViVA ANC Happy Birthday
donald mogotsi 1/8/2009 12:17:34 PM
i see that SHIKOTA has won your heart, mind and soul. i have heard this hogwash before, but not from you, from Lekota.
Point Blank 1/8/2009 12:18:46 PM
Which one is it? Are you free or are you oppressed? You can't be both. You confused.
Duzi 1/8/2009 12:20:45 PM
Q: When someone give constructive critisism to you, do you always throw it back in their face? Or just on this forum? How is a person ever to grow if the do not at least listen to the critisism levelled at them? And that goes for groups, not only individuals... The way you talk, you seem to give off the impression that the ANC and its adulterous leader are COMPLETELY faultless. Is this really what you think?
Johannes Maartens 1/8/2009 12:22:49 PM
Best letter and commenting I've read in a while on this site...I was born in 1986 so I was one of the many white kids that grew up through the fall of that horrible time we call apartheid.But from the day I started to go to Nursery school was integration of race implemented strongly.In fact,most kids were in schols where there are many different races and faces.We dealt with it and all RESPECT ONE ANOTHER,But many of you people reading this are STUCK IN THE PAST,just like our Government!Good Day
honky tonk man 1/8/2009 12:36:46 PM
You want loyalty, get a dog. As a youngster my 1st car was a beetle. Loved it and it got me where I needed to go. Should i have remained loyal to the brand? I think not, new and better cars came along so i moved with the times. The ANC is that old beetle. Got SA to where it needed to go but its time to upgrade.
Busta 1/8/2009 12:38:34 PM
One thing I love about white people is unity among themselves. White people will never abandoned their kind. They stick together and embrace one another for a common cause. Today, we still have them chanting the same tune against the ANC but this time with the help of some black idiots.
JK 1/8/2009 12:48:17 PM
but at the age of 97 and showing signs of senility (these strange things your leaders have been up to) and Alzheimer's (forgetting who you are supposed to be), may I recommend a nice high care facility in a retirement village while a younger party takes over the reins.
Jonas 1/8/2009 12:48:22 PM
I'm not sure of where you get your facts from but Winston Churchill was a very well educated man. He had a degree in literature from Harrow and after that he obtained a degree from Sandhurst Military College. He authored several books and served as a war correspondent in South Africa during the Boer War. Please get your facts straight as I think that you wanted us to compare him to JZ.
EB 1/8/2009 12:55:30 PM
Just like Zanu-PF, the ANC is an archaic, obsolete and anachronistic party that is a blot on SA's name. They're still guided by mid-20th century (or medievil!) attitudes by letting everything (except themselves!) be guided by the Freedom Charter, like it's some sort of Holy Grail. I can't wait for this abhorrent organisation to finally perish, maybe then this country can move forward and really start thriving. Brilliant article though!
Francois 1/8/2009 1:04:09 PM
Imagine how much of our tax money is gonna get wasted tonight! It pisses me right off!
M 1/8/2009 1:16:27 PM
I'm not too sure if one can compare a Zuma to a Churchill even though I dislike both of them. But the man with the best education and experience needs to lead. Education alone is not enough, because a leader needs to be practical too. But without education you are nothing. Knowledge is power.
idnas 1/8/2009 1:22:17 PM
Build a bridge - and get over it...
TB 1/8/2009 1:24:30 PM
Sorry to burst your bubble: I am white and I do not support my "own kind" because they are white. I support people/organizations that have the same values and intellect than what I have, who talks the most sense and procuce the goods as promised. I think I will either support COPE or the DA, but I will waite and see whats up when election time comes. The ANC unfortunately dissappointed me.
Peter Maluleke 1/8/2009 2:19:45 PM
Wake up boys and girls. If you think the NATS left this country bankrupt you must try to compare the debt the ANC brought over all the citizens of SA. Yes they enriched themselves and they do not deliver ser vices like free schools, water, electricity etc. Soon you will read how much this gov is owing service producing organisations. WHERE is that money? Think when you vote for a auditable gov. Vote DA. Helen fought apartheid and build CT for all the people and did not enrich the DA members.
Alien Dude 1/8/2009 2:19:52 PM
You are mistaken.Uncle bob was "given" all his "degrees".Don you honestly think ANYBODY who is educated on this planet would have the talent to run a country into the ground that quickly? Two others do spring to mind...."mr std 2 and his woodwork boy.
Abza 1/8/2009 2:48:11 PM
I take time out as COPE member to wish the ANC a happy belated 97th birthday, if it wasn't for you, I might have been in a back of a bakkie travelling in a national route to some destination that is 350KM away while a dog sits in the front sit. WE MIGHT NOT AGREE WITH SOME OF THE LEADERS THAT YOU HAVE NURTURED BUT WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU. may the spirit of the following fallen comrades shed light upon you as you celebrate this beautiful day - 1.O.Tambo, 2. W.Sisulu, 3.A.Luthuli, 4.G.Mbeki.
LUGWADU 1/8/2009 3:27:39 PM
The AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS, was formed by heroic men of noble vission.All of us the formerly oppressed black masses suffered in one way or the other.This is the ANC I know.Throughout it,s proud history , there have been instances of intese lobbying for leadership positions. However, these have never been construed as a basis for purging those favoured the vanquished.COPE is our shield, and we will use it to defend the constitution. VIVA COPE VIVA

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Looking for a holiday with a difference? Try the Blue Train! Spend two nights on the train and another two at Zimbali Lodge - meals, transfers and even golf included! For just R9680 per person sharing, there is no reason why you shouldn't book now!

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