This is a query about continued imprisonment of former freedom fighters of PAC-APLA cadres. In November 2007, the then State President of South Africa, Mr. Thabo Mbeki, addressed the National Parliament and announced that a committee would be established to look in the matter of freedom fighters that were not amnestied by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Amnesty Committee. The reference group was established in January 2008 and it was to be complete its work in September. The results wouldve been known and successful former freedom fighters would have been released. This didnt happen as it was later reported that results would be released in December 2008. This did not happen. On the 10th February 2009 care-taker President Kgalema Motlanthes State of the Nation Address said an announcement would be made, nothing happened. On the 5th of April 2011, it was said that the Minister of Correctional Services Mrs Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqcakula would look at all the applications based on merit. Political consideration would not be a factor when she applies her mind to applications before her. Then the Minister released two ANCs Self-Defense Unit members, namely; Fusi Mofokeng and Tsokolo Joseph Mokoena at Kroonstad Prison. These two ANC political prisoners were also denied amnesty by the TRC Amnesty Committee. The Minister pushed political agenda by releasing ANCs Self-Defense Unit members. The Minister discriminate PAC political prisoners by applying political nepotism. She released Mofokeng and Mokoena without involving the National Council for Correctional Services Advisory Board. Mofokeng and Mokoena were convicted in 1993 for the murder of a policeman in the then Orange Free State. What I know for sure is that we were condemned by the apartheid masters of colonial regime for playing a very significant role in the liberation struggle which was previously termed terrorists and for laying a firm foundation for the advancement to a democratic revolution. IT HAS BEEN LONG NOW, BUT, WHAT ARE WE IN FOR? It is absolutely criminalizing our noble struggle to treat freedom fighters like this, and in my view, the reference committee is the agent for this humiliating and unjust treatment. Finally, I charge the PAC and all political parties to take a stand for our noble and just struggle and to restore the dignity that goes with being part and parcel of righteous struggle, which we a re suffering all in the name of the very same struggle. Sons and daughters of Azania, I was denied a blanket amnesty by the TRC Amnesty Committee. I never appeared in before the TRC Amnesty Committee. I was represented by Attorney Mavundla Moses from from Seriti Mavundla & Partners Attorneys Conveyances and Notaries. I was denied a blanket amnesty by the TRC Amnesty Committee because I wanted the very same amnesty which they had granted some of the worst apartheid criminals; the Barend Strydom, the Dirk Cotzee, the Craig Williams, comrades, I am a suitable candidate to be placed on the new parole system for lifers. This is because I have more certificates than Fusi Mofokeng and Tsokolo Mokoena who were released by Minister Mapisa Nqcakula. More efforts are needed to fight this political nepotism which is being applied by the Minister by over-looking APLA Freedom Fighters. Comrades, as its always the case in every war, even in the liberation war, there were casualties. And this has been the case with the formation of POQO-APLA. PAC lost many of its cadres, some were killed in battle-fields and others are today on wheelchairs or disabled, one way or the other. Some have lost families through deaths in prison; others have lost their homes and businesses all because of the ANC political agendas. Those who survived during these trying times, have their stories to tell. We are held in South African prisons when those we helped from captivity are enjoying themselves in parliament and other organs of political power. The fight for our release need the same strength we had during the apartheid years. It needs the same kind of trust we had to fight against colonial apartheid regime of South Africa. Our freedom must be fought by all men and women in the world who believe in human dignity and world peace because our liberation struggle was not just a struggle; it was a sacrifice of our life to the freedom which our people are enjoying today. APLA has a history in the democracy and freedom of this country South Africa. Unless the rampage of political agenda and political nepotism is halted by vigorous efforts of international community, nepotism will always affect humanity as a whole because of its inhumane character. It must be fought by all mankind and eradicated roots and braches from all elements. AZANIA cannot claim to be totally free as long as PAC liberation struggles cadres are still languishing in prison and political nepotism is being pushed by the Anti-Pan Africanist Congress of Azania. Commander Kenny Motsamai IZWE LETHU IAFRIKA!!!! IAFRIKA IZWE LETHU!!!!
Posted on: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 16:43:41 +0000
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