LETTER TO ANC KZN SECRETARY GENERAL SIHLE ZIKALALA Dear Cde Sihle Zikalala, One regrets having to write this letter to you particularly because you are an official of a movement that I was born in and thus will forever be sentimental about. However, it is apparent that the position you hold has led you to undermine the very movement you represent, the millions who vote for it, the thousands of Africans who suffered and died for it and indeed its remarkable founding fathers. As I had once suggested to you before, the elders of the African National Congress still need to give you a few more lessons in politics, leadership and diplomacy. I reiterate this suggestion fully confident that you will also agree with me, that you in particular are an inadequate individual in dismantling this entrenched systemic Indian hegemony in KZN. You have demonstrated with exceptional ability that your only concern is the continuation of the status quo and not land reform and economic transformation in favor of Africans. You have been the nerve behind this campaign to discredit the Mazibuye African Forum depicting it as an anti-Indian group rather than a proudly pro- African organization. Certain leaders including you have endeavored rather robustly in the upliftment and economic empowerment of the Indian community in KZN. You and other leaders have bent over backwards to ensure that the Indians amass great wealth and take considerable control of the province’s economy under the guise of them outlandishly being referred to as black. Leaders have allowed themselves to be fronted in companies to acquire massive government contracts of which they only end up receiving less than 1% whilst their handlers show-off their squander through crass materialism whilst the African people who reside in abject poverty continue to observe in awe. You allow yourselves to be paraded by Indians at dinner parties and birthdays, excessively indulging on samoosas and driven in expensive cars so that in the morning you could use your political affluence to bark that they receive the next contract in the interest of indulging in more samoosas like good little boys. You have turned a blind eye to the historical truths that are at the nucleus of why the African people still suffer today. Then you expect us as an African people to applaud and remain silent whilst we watch this racial economic injustice? Unfortunately we can’t and we won’t! I say this with certainty, because as you know, I was born in KwaMashu C44, born into a family of ANC stalwarts and MK Veterans and a home that was shared by comrades such as Nora Mfeka, Bapane Mandla Mfeka, Andrew Zondo, Dumisani Makhaye, Sandile Thusi, Kisa Dlamini, Thami Mohlomi, Important Mkhize, Past 4 and many others from across the country. Comrades that fought not only for voting (which today has become a fruitless exercise for Africans) but fought for the Land of the African people to be returned, who fought for their children and future generations never to live in poverty again, who fought for this colonial economic system that was designed deliberately to exclude Africans to be dismantled, who fought for quality education to be taught to their children, who fought for a country where the status quo does not place the African at the bottom. Today, we have MK Veterans who have been in prison since before 1994 and till today they have not been released, we have MK Veterans who have been reduced to mere existence in the very land they fought for. However, when I did a background check, not many seem to know you or where you come from, nor does anyone seem to be assured of your struggle credentials? What has been said about you though, is that you are a JZ court case comrade, you attended night vigils and you were thus very ‘instrumental’ and it is from this that you gained your prominence. Surely I need not remind you that President Zuma’s court case was never a liberation struggle. The Mazibuye African Forum is a radical, pragmatic movement whose gospel resonates with all Africans of all levels of society in KwaZulu-Natal. In our Forum, you shall discover a new breed of intellectuals and a new generation of African revolutionaries who are uncompromising in their pro-African stance and resolute in their quest to liberate the African people economically. You see whenever there is a paradigm shift my comrade, the dismantling of power constellations is the first casualty and thus I would like to suggest to you, that you desist from taking up a position that exposes you as a Gatekeeper of the status quo, as that places you in direct contrast to the inevitable. In closing, I would like to point out these imperatives to you; the economic supremacy of Indians in the land of our forefathers at the expense of us Africans will come to a halt, the landlessness of the African people will dramatically change and the base of power will shift completely. We advocate for organic African business people to emerge in KZN and this too shall happen. You and others may use the ANC as a personal protection unit for this Indian hegemony, but it will prove useless in the end of it all, as our support is within. I would like to officially challenge you to a public debate on the topic of ‘Indian hegemony in KZN’ at your earliest convenience and at any public platform that you are comfortable with. To borrow the words of one of the greatest Africans that have ever lived, Pixley ka Isaka Seme, I comrade, am an African, and I set my pride in my race over against a hostile public opinion, now the question is, what are you? Revolutionary Regards, Phumlani Mfeka
Posted on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 10:34:03 +0000
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