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Speaking exactly 19 years after her father was murdered, Cleopatra Hani likened her father to Moses and Black Consciousness Movement founder Steve Biko.

Had her father been alive today, South Africa would be a different country, she said.

“The problem with this country is the corruption that we need to move away from. 

“The ANC has been stolen from the people by thugs, and the real people of the ANC are those on the streets with nothing.  There are .. puppets in the ANC whom I have no ear to listen to.

“If my father were still alive, he would not be happy with this state of affairs,” said Hani.

She was in East London remembering the day her father, a former chief of staff of Umkhonto weSizwe,  was assassinated outside their Boksburg home on April 10, 1993.  Cleopatra said she felt nothing for killers Janusz Walus and Clive Derby-Lewis.

“My father was a man of action. He was  loving, caring and he was revolutionary. If  my father were still alive, things would have  been different, very different,” she said.

“I am not ashamed of what I am saying. What happened in Polokwane was wrong  because we look stupid. Today we want  [President Jacob] Zuma then the next day  we do not want Zuma. We love the ANC but  the problem is greed for power, money and  positions,” she said referring to the watershed elective conference that saw Zuma wrestle power from his predecessor Thabo Mbeki in 2007.

ANC provincial secretary Oscar Mabuyane said the ANC would not defend  itself from Hani’s assertions.

Source: Daily Dispatch

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Wed Jun 19 16:45:35 SAST 2013 ::

Apr 11, 2012

TheNewFreedomFighter

Like I've said before, the ANC and Zuma and Malema in particular would have us believe that the solution to the ANC's leadership crisis lies in electing either Zuma or some puppet of Malema as president of the ANC, when in fact they should be looking in a whole new direction for a whole new leader. But alas, the cupboard is bare!
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Apr 11, 2012

Printa

I couldn't agree with you mere my sister. Starting with Sanral.
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Apr 11, 2012

MommaC

ANC provincial secretary Oscar Mabuyane said the ANC would not defend itself from Hani’s assertions.


..... well you can't really.
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Apr 11, 2012

MORNACHIESS

ok i c now .
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Apr 11, 2012

CheeseBoy

Cleopatra Hani gwede and manyi are going to hit back calling you a wh0re and all sorts of unmentionable names. just watch your back. this is not the time to speak the truth about the disgusting rot within the so called ANC.mbeki must be laughing his a$$ off as we speak. "I told you so" is what comes to mind.
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Apr 11, 2012

candilious

Halalalalalall andthis is merely the beginning the people shal govern.

Fok Malema en hom moere.........people are g@tvol
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Apr 11, 2012

Dikmol

ANC provincial secretary Oscar Mabuyane sir, it is impossible or very very difficult to defend yourself against the truth. Just try and you will see. I will repeat part of her words, had Hani been alive today, things would be very,very different in this country. THUGS!!!
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Apr 11, 2012

tsayaya

Cleopatra, you just sprinkled the vampire with holy water, now watch when it gets mad!
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Apr 11, 2012

tumzangwana

ANC provincial secretary Oscar Mabuyane said the ANC would not defend itself from Hani’s assertions.
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whatever oscar, ANC wont defend itself because you knows she is telling the truth.

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Apr 11, 2012

Skomoro99

TheNewFreedomFighter

Wel said,dats y i say people need 2 elect a president directly nt this thing of being given n idiot as a president.Zuma was put by Malema thru his stunts.A.N.C is now about money n power not serving the people.
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