(Gordon) Lees maar hier. Ek het hier en daar dit probeer verkort. Baie interessant. Floyd Shivambu ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS’ WELCOME THE SEPTEMBER NATIONAL IMBIZO (SNI) AND FIGHTER ANDILE MXINGTAMA INTO OUR RANKS: 16 JULY, 2013 On Sunday, the 14th of July 2013, the Central Command Team of Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) held a bilateral meeting with the September National Imbizo (SNI), which is a predominalty black consciousness driven movement advocating for economic justice in South Africa. EFF is proud to announce that the September National Imbizo (SNI) is fully behind the political programme of Economic Freedom Fighters and will be playing an active role towards the NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON WHAT IS TO BE DONE in Soweto on the 26th and 27th of July 2013 and beyond. EFF is also proud to announce the inclusion of Fighter Andile Mxingtama, the national leader of SNI into the Central Command Team of EFF. The SNI Fighters across South Africa will out of the bilateral meeting integrate and begin to participate in the activities of EFF in all Provinces, Regions and Branches. The SNI will dissolve as an organisation, but has resolved that all its members will integrate into EFF structures and be guided by the 7 non-negotiable principles of EFF, which are: a. Expropriation of South Africa’s land without compensation for equal redistribution. b. Nationalisation of Mines, banks, and other strategic sectors of the economy, without compensation. c. Building State and government capacity, which will lead to abolishment of Tenders. d. Free quality education, healthcare, houses, and sanitation. e. Massive protected industrial development to create millions of sustainable jobs including Introduction of minimum wages in order to close the wage gap between the rich and the poor. f. Massive development of the African economy and advocating for a move from reconciliation to justice in the entire continent. g. Open, accountable, corrupt-free government and society without fear of victimisation by State agencies. The EFF Central Command Team welcomes all Fighters from the SNI into our ranks and publicly commit to intensify the struggle for economic emancipation of the people of South Africa and the African continent. We specifically welcome Fighter Andile Mxingtama as a member of the EFF Central Command Team. Fighter Mxingtama brings to the EFF his experience and network in the post 1994 social movements. He is one of the founders of the Landless Peoples’ Movement (LMP). He was also national president of the Black Consciousness student formation, the Azanian Student Movement, and also leader of the Wits African Post Graduate Association and the Wits Save Mumia Abu Jamal campaign. He has maintained international relations with peasant and black radical movements across the world. He is perhaps more known for his public intellectual thrust as columnist in The Sowetan. Fighter Mxingtama is also the co-editor of the influential edition Biko Lives! And editor of the popular political journal New Frank Talk. Above all, he is fearless agitator whose coming into the EFF will be celebrated by most in the left radical black tradition, both home and abroad. ISSUED BY THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS CONTACT MBUYISENI QUINTIN NDLOZI, EFF NATIONAL SPOKESPERSON Cell Number: +27 73 133 3012 Email: economicfreedomstruggle@gmail and mbuyiseni@gmail Facebook: Mbuyiseni Quintin Ndlozi Twitter: @EconFreedomZA and @MbuyiseniNdlozi What is the September National Imbizo? The September National Imbizo (SNI) is a PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT. It is a national voluntary movement of like minded people who wish to bring about a new society where all are taken care of for real. This means the SNI is not a political party, but a revolutionary movement that wants total change for our people in all areas of life, from how we are governed (politics), to the use of our natural resources and wealth (economy) to relations amongst people (social). This change must put BLACKS FIRST and not benefit a new political elite and white capital A movement for total liberation? Didn’t 1994 do this? We note that 1994 only extended apartheid under new management by the ANC. We note that blacks continue to suffer and therefore there is need for a BLACK centred movement in society and the SNI has come to represent this possibility. What happened post 1994 was NOT the deepening of democracy; rather, people and a political party that claims to represent the people came into political power. But for them, the people they were to serve were not us, the majority, but themselves and their families and those already privileged by colonialism and apartheid. The people for them include big businesses (e.g. the mining houses and the banks) that were central to maintaining colonialism and apartheid and that continue to deepen inequality and anti black racism today Why the SNI? After 18 years of ANC rule and DA opposition politics it is clear that these parties do not care for the interests of the black majority. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Think about what happens if we don’t build an alternative movement? What is going to happen to our country? Another 20 years of ANC elite rule and DA lies? The solutions to our problems are political. Let the politicians respect and fear the people – let’s build the PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT. For change to happen there is a need for a massive, radical and Black-centered movement in society, which would be able to mobilise against injustice waged by politicians. For this to work there is need to overhaul the existing nature of politics and economic systems. Who can join? The SNI is inspired by Black Consciousness and Radical Pan Africanism. Therefore Membership is open ONLY to BLACK PEOPLE. Why Blacks only? South Africa is an anti black white supremacist country managed by the ANC in the interests of white people. Only blacks can liberate themselves. How far will SNI go to achieve this? The SNI believes in the guide to action provided by Malcolm X that we shall struggle for liberation by “ANY MEANS NECESSARY”. This means that no method or approach is discarded before hand; everything must be used, from protest to insurrection, so long as such actions are guided by a clear perspective of liberation that put blacks first! All actions must be contemplated and tried so long as they don’t compromise the revolutionary line of our movement. (Please see guide to action). We need to study closely what the most effective method of engagement at any given time dictated to by the reality on the ground is. All action must help our people to develop a critical consciousness and confidence in their own power. We shall not compromise with those agents of white supremacy more specifically the ANC and DA. In situations where we find ourselves in the same trenches with them, we shall maintain a revolutionary hostile posture and raise our voices against their treacherous politics! Is the People’s Manifesto black Socialism? This People’s Manifesto is intended to inspire a basic model, and fundamental principles and guidelines, for the nature and functioning of a radically different society and government than the one that now exists. The Manifesto suggests a black socialist state which would personify, institutionalize and promote radically different relations and values among people; an anti capitalist state whose final and fundamental aim would be the final abolition of all exploitative and oppressive relations among human beings and the destructive antagonistic contradictions to which these relations give rise. These endeavors would be guided by a commitment to the principle of BLACKS FIRST!
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