Dear Comrades Floyd shivambu, Julius Malema and ANC Youth league I certainly believe that this is the most trying time for the ANC and Youth League in the context of mass support. The saying goes as ' the hunter has become the hunted'. Over the past months the Youth League president Julius Malema has been ridiculing the PAC and its history. Among other things Malema has misguidedly deceived his followers and the African people in general about the PAC of Azania. Among other things, Malema including scribers in the ANC today have misled the African people about the history of South Africa. According to him, the PAC including other liberation movements have never been liberation movement. This is a blatant revision of history of this country. On one occasion, Malema falsely stated that the Sharpville day was a protest of the ANC, and that the PAC stole it from the ANC. This was extremely absurd in the sense that it negated what the historian authorities have said about the PAC's role in this campaign. Leading ANC figures who were at the highest echelons of the ANC then including Duma Nokwe admitted that the event was planned and belonged to the PAC. In an article that appeared in the ANC today, the writers cherry picked extracts from the work of historians such as Tom Lodge to ridicule the PAC. Admittedly, we haven't done well in the electoral game in this country, however, I need to point out that such seetbacks do not necessarily erode the history which we are part of. Firstly, I m not certain if you are aware that we are the organization that changed the history of liberation struggle in this country. Without the PAC'S anti- pass campaign, the liberation movement would not have been banned. Secondly, why was the PAC banned in 1960 if it was not a liberation movement. Thirdly, why would the PAC leader Mangaliso Sobukwe have his special law, Sobukwe Clause, aimed at keeping him in a political quarantine. Why would the liberal Helem Suzman, for a number of years agitate for the repealation of a Sobukwe clause for a number of years. Historians such as Tom Lodge, that your writers selectively quote, say unambiguously that PAC lobbying succeeded in the expulsion of the South African government in the General assembly of the United Nations in the 1970's. I am raising these historical antecedents chiefly because Malema denies the historicity of the PAC's role in the liberation struggle. We are happily today that we have achieved a political independence, however, your structure ( ANC youth League) denies our role in the struggle for liberation. We are perplexed when you reacted when liberal formations such as DA and COPE CLAIMED THAT Nelson Mandela voted then in these elections. Also the DA has been staging its rallies in places wherein you claim heritage. Is it ok when you discount others role in the liberation struggle and oppose that you claim to have stolen your heritage ?. Azapo which was the brainchild of BCM of the 70's has been stripped its liberation credentials. tell us how does one earn liberation struggle credentials. Is it belonging to the ANC ? I am certain that objective historian have engraved our history in the rocks, and to erase it is not difficult but impossible. I am a witness to the role of the PAC liberation struggle. surprisingly, Mr Malema has made some sort of a detour in your Freedom Charter by saying that the land doesn't belong to all who live on it, in his call for land expropriation campaigns. The PAC which has been harping on land question for many years, finds Julius Malema supporting that cause, but failing to acknowledge its architects.
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