Motsoko Pheko

The 50th anniversary of the African Union, the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), is upon the African people this 25th May 2013. Both Organisations were formed with the main objective of ultimately bringing about the United States of Africa.

The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) is not an abstract lifeless thing. PAC is its members, cadres and leaders working and winning together.

Comrade Mfanasekhaya Percy Gqobose is not fallen. He is in the class of Makana, Bambatha and Sobukwe. As a spirit now, he is there to awaken us from our political slumber and inspire us to the spirit of 6th April 1959 where he was when the spark of the Azanian revolution was lit.

In paying tribute to Prof. Chinua Achebe, this great scholar, this outstanding writer, this inspiring philosopher and this true Son of Africa; let me briefly say the following:

I knew M-Afrika Zolile Hamilton Keke when he became the PAC Representative in London in 1985. I worked closely with him until I went to the United Nations in New York to represent the victims of apartheid and colonialism there.

Joe Mkwanazi recognised that the national liberation struggle began when all African kings of South Africa such as Dingane, Cetshwayo, Hintsa, Moshoeshoe, Sekukuni, resisted British imperialism and colonialism.

AGRI TV: Section 1(a) of the Native Land Act 1913 reads as follows: ‘a native shall not enter into agreement or transaction for the purchase...from a person other than a native, of any such land.’ Can you explain to us what this means, and what the implications were for the so-called ‘Natives?’

Before our country was invaded by colonialists from Europe three African seers foretold of their coming and warned about certain things that our ancestors were to avoid in dealing with them. These seers were Ntsikana, Mmantsopa and King Somhlolo.

Programme Director, Comrades, Brothers and Sisters,

I greet all members of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania gathered here today for a very historic purpose and wish this meeting revolutionary success. You are custodians of a unique revolutionary legacy in South Africa, which the imperialists and their agents fear.