In Soweto, there are 22 year olds who are living in a state of defeatism and suffocating in hopelessness. Out of that concrete jungle, some people, like Malaika Wa Azania, have decided to give coherence to this struggle of 22 year olds. They did this by writing books about the nervous conditions endured by sons and daughters of the soil in colonial-constructed townships. Does this mean that Malaika Wa Azania and other writers, because they documented this story and gave it coherence, own it? No. They simply recorded it. In South Afrika, there are millions of poor working class people who are suffering under the veil of White monopoly capital. Daily, they toil under the scorching sun and throughout the blistering cold of unforgiving winters they slave away. With tummies barely full, they go to school and after matriculating, they wake up every morning to sit on street corners to cope with unemployment and the reality of doors of learning being shut in their faces. They wait on tables at White-owned restaurants. They die underground in mines digging for platinum, diamonds and other minerals that profit megacorporations like Lonmin and Anglo-Plat/Anglo-Gold. An NEC of less than fifty people writes a discussion document addressing this reality. This document that gets adopted as a resolution by an organisation of less than a million members. Now, it is said that this organisation owns not just that document, but the struggle it explains itself. No one in this country, no one, owns the struggle for economic freedom. That struggle is informed by conditions of this countrys working class poor. No one sat infront of a laptop and out of their own creativity, wrote about a non-existent struggle. They documented reflections of an existing one. So economic freedom is not merely a resolution taken by some five thousand people in some conference in Midrand. It is an ambition for more than 30 million South Afrikans who are afflicted by White monopoly capital. The working class is everywhere. The poor are everywhere. So this EFF stole our resolutions, economic freedom is ours is a pathetic argument born out of minds that cannot reason. How does anyone claim intellectual property to a struggle faced by an entire population? So only one organisation has the right to champion the struggle against capitalism? Who gave it this divine monopoly over championing a people-defined struggle? Coming here telling me that they stole our resolutions. Tsek!
Posted on: Thu, 01 May 2014 18:19:20 +0000
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