DEPUTY Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke and six other struggle icons, the first to be sentenced to life imprisonment by the apartheid regime, will be honoured tomorrow.
Izwe lethu!!!!! these cadres were ignored by the government and they really fought for this country.....i'll be there........ Report Abuse
May 25, 2012
ZUMAMUSTGO
ilizwe elethu, i really wish this sleeping giant of SA politics can wake up, ANC is failing us and they will continue to do so and unfortunately we don't have an alternative, what saddened me is that the other day Mantashe comes out and tell us that we shouldn't worry about R Mdluli and Zuma did the same, clearly our intellectual capacity is being undermined, the Guptas are also running the show, KZN ANC comes out and endorse Zuma, my question is what is the ANC trying to achieve? in the past elections the ANC has seen a considerable decrease in voters and yet they want to give Zuma a second term, this country has tried and we are still ensuring that regardless of the different ethnic groups we cannot allow tribalism to take over and it is clear which direction is Zuma and KZN ANC coming up with, some of the leaders who elected to the ANC in KZN have serious charges hanning over their heads and yet they were elected to lead and those charges might be dropped,
In the Northern Cape Zuma wants the support of Mr. Block and apparently the same charges that Block is facing are the same charges that some KZN leaders are facing and the charges against Block could be dropped, the list is endless and this is what we have to leave with. Report Abuse
May 25, 2012
Phaahle-o-Mosweu-le-diatla
Izwe Lethu...iAfrika! Tiko rahina...iAfrika! Shango lasho...ndiAfrika! Lefase la rena...ke Afrika! I have been telling my blind ANC sheepish followers that if years spent in Robben Island is a barometer to measure the greatness of political leaders, then Ntate Jafta Masemola should be the GREATEST because he spent 29 years in Robben Island...not 27 like other well advertised people.
I will be there in Mams to celebrate these mostly misunderstood cadres. From Cape to Cairo...Morocco to Madagascar...Afrika is ONE BIG village. The borders are artificial lines drawn by greedy losers of the capitalist West.
One Settler one Bullet!!! Malibuye Izwelethu.......... Report Abuse
May 25, 2012
Socrates
Izwe Lethu...one day we will lead this country to true Azanian freedom and democracy where the majority will benefit form the wealth of the continent Report Abuse
May 25, 2012
kuyozekubenini
The PAC will always be there even when people say it is dead.Yes it is dead to those people who do not recognize its existence like the ruling party.It is not only this particular party that seek to distroy the vanguard liberation movement but even those people from whom that party receives all kinds of aid.
It must be clear that PAN AFRICANISM as a liberatory creed will subside but rise again from time to time and will triumph like you never expected and when this occures all hell will braek loose.It is also true that a lot of people who are prominant and will take the PAC anywhere,will die like some of our cadres who passed on under misterious ways.
We must be vigilant and fight against the killers of SOBUKWE,MASEMOLA,MOTHOPENG and all those who were eliminated from the face of the earth under appalling circumstanses.We also need to build the organisation and become a force that everybody was afraid of including the west and their lackeys.
We will start with rebuilding our support base and collectively fix the issue of leadership.The organisation will have a leader we all envissage but in doing so,we have to have a clear direction we sought to take in order to realise our objectives as layed down in the 1959 manifesto.Our people must not be fooled by the storksweet populist rulers as it is the people that will depose them.The majority of our people are reawakenning and lo...the writting is on the wall.
Hard work and perseverence will pay off once the people take a final stand against what they see as the potwhole on their way to true liberation. Report Abuse
May 25, 2012
Papage
I know this guy, he is a judge right now, what did PAC archive, was he a PAC member? that is why Zuma is shying away in giving him top job in the justice system, this President is destroying our country. Report Abuse
May 25, 2012
mhlupheki
the ruling party is afraid of PAC, why our political prisoners are still in jail. Myibuye i Afrika izwe lethu Report Abuse
May 25, 2012
RobinH
I agree with Ike Mafole, that "Our heroes have been forgotten by the government". Almost every second day we have some or other completely random unknown "ANC stalwart" elevated to hero status with major Memorial services blazoned all over any possible media platform, but of course this is merely the creation of a false, ANC-flavoured history for the purpose of hoodwinking the less privileged masses into a belief in the prestige of an ailing party. It is always a supposed ANC member. But never a word about the massive sacrifices made by people aligned to PAC, AZAPO or any other liberation movement. The ANC, as we know, has even tried to claim Sharpeville as an ANC initiative! Report Abuse
May 25, 2012
mhlupheki
The ruling party is afraid of the PAC, if not why our comrades are still in jail, mayibuye iAfrika, iAfrika izwelethu Report Abuse
May 25, 2012
Charmaboy
Why is the ANC not releasing those who were sentenced during the apartheid era. REALSE THEM AND STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT THE DRAWINGS! Report Abuse
May 25, 2012
Lehipi
I have always had a view that the PAC was its worst enemy... their choice not to participate in the first elections ( "94) will haunt the party forever.. at that time the "informed electorate" knew that there were other liberation movements that fought for the freedoms that some of us fail to apreciate today... maybe we would be having 2 black led parties in parliament competing for our votes.. but Ma Afrika chose to fight among themselves and as a result the party is unfortunately unknown to some of the "born frees"... I pray that this sleeping giant awakens some day before it disappears forever... I hope the "sabc" broadcasts this event... Report Abuse
May 25, 2012
skhokho21
RobinH, must the ANC organise PAC memorial celebrations of their heroes & heroines? PAC is
d e a d, period. Why do you think Patricia left them, is Moseneke still an active executive member of the PAC? Robin stick to your DA otherwise PAC will put a b u l l e t between your eyes, to them you are still a settler. Report Abuse
May 25, 2012
Papage
Why do we have only 90% of un-educated ministers and yet big brains are wasted out there, South Africa is so rich with educated people, but we allow monkeys to lead us, WHY? Report Abuse
May 25, 2012
RobinH
Skhokho: Once again this does not follow. They need not create holidays and stuff, no. But a spot of recognition woul;d be good. State funerals and massive state-funded (NOT ANC FUNDED!) are arranged for the ANC "heroes" they dig out of nowhere. So why can't the same be done for other REAL heroes from other groupings? Maybe that is asking too much for this "inclusive alliance" (What a laugh), but then at least they should stop this fictional hero-making of their own. And really, you are very slow on the uptake, Sir. Read my lips and repeat after me, I AM ALIGNED TO NO PARTY. Not the DA, Not ANC. NOBODY. However confused you may be, please try to get at least that right. Report Abuse
May 25, 2012
brizzy1
Good to see the real heroes being honoured...was getting tired of S.A and the our media agencies sounding like Mandela is the only war hero. Report Abuse
May 25, 2012
RobinH
Skhokho: Whether the PAC is still viable today is completely irrelevant. They were a vital part in the struggle which your beloved ailing party is trying to claim as it's own, and that is what it is all about, if you actually bother to try and reason. Report Abuse
May 25, 2012
BlackMamba
It does nt matter how long it takes, all the African fighters will be honoured. The way in which the ANC continue to honour others is wrong cause it only ANC affiliated pople. Aluta Continua!!! African will be soon be free from the black oppressors and dictators. Izwelethu, iAfrica. Report Abuse
TAsto: Ja ja. Pity most people here were now born here, so not many settlers left. Report Abuse
May 25, 2012
Bosele
I have said this over and over again,Moseneke was snubbed because he was not from the ruling party.Even when i grew up thruogh the uprising i have known Dikgang Moseneke never ever heard of Mohweng Mohweng.I have heard of people like Tiro Moseneke never about Mohweng mohweng.How can a man like Dikgang not be honoured by the democratic government? Report Abuse
May 25, 2012
Papage
Bosele who is Mohweng Mohwen now? is he a South African? that surname sound Botswana Report Abuse
May 25, 2012
DimaaneZB
That's where Dikgang belong, " jackals Party". These guys were resolute until Mbeki took Dikgang and chained him like a dog. Anyway the dog ate. Report Abuse
May 26, 2012
mkabayi
@Skhokho
the pac freedom fighters are most deserving of this honour. they were the one's who's uncompromising and fearless attitude had the racist settler regime at sixes and sevens. sharpeville day, that epoch-marking event in recent sa history belongs primarily to the pac. unlike, the vacillating, overly-cautious, equivocating upper-middle class, elitist anc at the time, who believed that they can force genuine change by prosecuting a sabotage campaign, fearing direct engagement with the oppressive forces and its beneficiaries and ready to make suicidal compromises on issues as fundamental as the return of the land to its rightful owners, these guys were totally committed to the destruction of the white racist state and, for example, would have rediculed chief luthuli who said in his terrified testimony at the rivonia treason trial that the anc's struggle "was not to remove the (apartheid) government but to be allowed to participate in it"!
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Sporty
Izwe lethu!!!!! these cadres were ignored by the government and they really fought for this country.....i'll be there........Report Abuse
ZUMAMUSTGO
ilizwe elethu, i really wish this sleeping giant of SA politics can wake up, ANC is failing us and they will continue to do so and unfortunately we don't have an alternative, what saddened me is that the other day Mantashe comes out and tell us that we shouldn't worry about R Mdluli and Zuma did the same, clearly our intellectual capacity is being undermined, the Guptas are also running the show, KZN ANC comes out and endorse Zuma, my question is what is the ANC trying to achieve? in the past elections the ANC has seen a considerable decrease in voters and yet they want to give Zuma a second term, this country has tried and we are still ensuring that regardless of the different ethnic groups we cannot allow tribalism to take over and it is clear which direction is Zuma and KZN ANC coming up with, some of the leaders who elected to the ANC in KZN have serious charges hanning over their heads and yet they were elected to lead and those charges might be dropped,In the Northern Cape Zuma wants the support of Mr. Block and apparently the same charges that Block is facing are the same charges that some KZN leaders are facing and the charges against Block could be dropped, the list is endless and this is what we have to leave with.
Report Abuse
Phaahle-o-Mosweu-le-diatla
Izwe Lethu...iAfrika! Tiko rahina...iAfrika! Shango lasho...ndiAfrika! Lefase la rena...ke Afrika! I have been telling my blind ANC sheepish followers that if years spent in Robben Island is a barometer to measure the greatness of political leaders, then Ntate Jafta Masemola should be the GREATEST because he spent 29 years in Robben Island...not 27 like other well advertised people.I will be there in Mams to celebrate these mostly misunderstood cadres. From Cape to Cairo...Morocco to Madagascar...Afrika is ONE BIG village. The borders are artificial lines drawn by greedy losers of the capitalist West.
Happy Afrika Day Ma-Afrika.
Thobela!!
Report Abuse
Sompisi
One Settler one Bullet!!! Malibuye Izwelethu..........Report Abuse
Socrates
Izwe Lethu...one day we will lead this country to true Azanian freedom and democracy where the majority will benefit form the wealth of the continentReport Abuse
kuyozekubenini
The PAC will always be there even when people say it is dead.Yes it is dead to those people who do not recognize its existence like the ruling party.It is not only this particular party that seek to distroy the vanguard liberation movement but even those people from whom that party receives all kinds of aid.It must be clear that PAN AFRICANISM as a liberatory creed will subside but rise again from time to time and will triumph like you never expected and when this occures all hell will braek loose.It is also true that a lot of people who are prominant and will take the PAC anywhere,will die like some of our cadres who passed on under misterious ways.
We must be vigilant and fight against the killers of SOBUKWE,MASEMOLA,MOTHOPENG and all those who were eliminated from the face of the earth under appalling circumstanses.We also need to build the organisation and become a force that everybody was afraid of including the west and their lackeys.
We will start with rebuilding our support base and collectively fix the issue of leadership.The organisation will have a leader we all envissage but in doing so,we have to have a clear direction we sought to take in order to realise our objectives as layed down in the 1959 manifesto.Our people must not be fooled by the storksweet populist rulers as it is the people that will depose them.The majority of our people are reawakenning and lo...the writting is on the wall.
Hard work and perseverence will pay off once the people take a final stand against what they see as the potwhole on their way to true liberation.
Report Abuse
Papage
I know this guy, he is a judge right now, what did PAC archive, was he a PAC member? that is why Zuma is shying away in giving him top job in the justice system, this President is destroying our country.Report Abuse
mhlupheki
the ruling party is afraid of PAC, why our political prisoners are still in jail. Myibuye i Afrika izwe lethuReport Abuse
RobinH
I agree with Ike Mafole, that "Our heroes have been forgotten by the government". Almost every second day we have some or other completely random unknown "ANC stalwart" elevated to hero status with major Memorial services blazoned all over any possible media platform, but of course this is merely the creation of a false, ANC-flavoured history for the purpose of hoodwinking the less privileged masses into a belief in the prestige of an ailing party. It is always a supposed ANC member. But never a word about the massive sacrifices made by people aligned to PAC, AZAPO or any other liberation movement. The ANC, as we know, has even tried to claim Sharpeville as an ANC initiative!Report Abuse
mhlupheki
The ruling party is afraid of the PAC, if not why our comrades are still in jail, mayibuye iAfrika, iAfrika izwelethuReport Abuse
Charmaboy
Why is the ANC not releasing those who were sentenced during the apartheid era. REALSE THEM AND STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT THE DRAWINGS!Report Abuse
Lehipi
I have always had a view that the PAC was its worst enemy... their choice not to participate in the first elections ( "94) will haunt the party forever.. at that time the "informed electorate" knew that there were other liberation movements that fought for the freedoms that some of us fail to apreciate today... maybe we would be having 2 black led parties in parliament competing for our votes.. but Ma Afrika chose to fight among themselves and as a result the party is unfortunately unknown to some of the "born frees"... I pray that this sleeping giant awakens some day before it disappears forever... I hope the "sabc" broadcasts this event...Report Abuse
skhokho21
RobinH, must the ANC organise PAC memorial celebrations of their heroes & heroines? PAC isd e a d, period. Why do you think Patricia left them, is Moseneke still an active executive member of the PAC? Robin stick to your DA otherwise PAC will put a b u l l e t between your eyes, to them you are still a settler.
Report Abuse
Papage
Why do we have only 90% of un-educated ministers and yet big brains are wasted out there, South Africa is so rich with educated people, but we allow monkeys to lead us, WHY?Report Abuse
RobinH
Skhokho: Once again this does not follow. They need not create holidays and stuff, no. But a spot of recognition woul;d be good. State funerals and massive state-funded (NOT ANC FUNDED!) are arranged for the ANC "heroes" they dig out of nowhere. So why can't the same be done for other REAL heroes from other groupings? Maybe that is asking too much for this "inclusive alliance" (What a laugh), but then at least they should stop this fictional hero-making of their own. And really, you are very slow on the uptake, Sir. Read my lips and repeat after me, I AM ALIGNED TO NO PARTY. Not the DA, Not ANC. NOBODY. However confused you may be, please try to get at least that right.Report Abuse
brizzy1
Good to see the real heroes being honoured...was getting tired of S.A and the our media agencies sounding like Mandela is the only war hero.Report Abuse
RobinH
Skhokho: Whether the PAC is still viable today is completely irrelevant. They were a vital part in the struggle which your beloved ailing party is trying to claim as it's own, and that is what it is all about, if you actually bother to try and reason.Report Abuse
BlackMamba
It does nt matter how long it takes, all the African fighters will be honoured. The way in which the ANC continue to honour others is wrong cause it only ANC affiliated pople. Aluta Continua!!! African will be soon be free from the black oppressors and dictators. Izwelethu, iAfrica.Report Abuse
Tasto
One Settler One Bullet !!Report Abuse
RobinH
TAsto: Ja ja. Pity most people here were now born here, so not many settlers left.Report Abuse
Bosele
I have said this over and over again,Moseneke was snubbed because he was not from the ruling party.Even when i grew up thruogh the uprising i have known Dikgang Moseneke never ever heard of Mohweng Mohweng.I have heard of people like Tiro Moseneke never about Mohweng mohweng.How can a man like Dikgang not be honoured by the democratic government?Report Abuse
Papage
Bosele who is Mohweng Mohwen now? is he a South African? that surname sound BotswanaReport Abuse
DimaaneZB
That's where Dikgang belong, " jackals Party". These guys were resolute until Mbeki took Dikgang and chained him like a dog. Anyway the dog ate.Report Abuse
mkabayi
@Skhokho
the pac freedom fighters are most deserving of this honour. they were the one's who's uncompromising and fearless attitude had the racist settler regime at sixes and sevens. sharpeville day, that epoch-marking event in recent sa history belongs primarily to the pac. unlike, the vacillating, overly-cautious, equivocating upper-middle class, elitist anc at the time, who believed that they can force genuine change by prosecuting a sabotage campaign, fearing direct engagement with the oppressive forces and its beneficiaries and ready to make suicidal compromises on issues as fundamental as the return of the land to its rightful owners, these guys were totally committed to the destruction of the white racist state and, for example, would have rediculed chief luthuli who said in his terrified testimony at the rivonia treason trial that the anc's struggle "was not to remove the (apartheid) government but to be allowed to participate in it"!
Report Abuse
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