YEARS AGO

In another twist following its suspension of the armed struggle, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) is clandestinely pursuing election deals with those it used to call “surrogates of the regime”.

The PAC’S strange bedfellows, which it hopes will agree to stand under its banner, include the Inkatha Freedom Party, the National People’s Party, Gazankulu’s Ximoko Progressive Party, Qwaqwa’s Dikwankwetla, Kwandebele’s Intando Yesizwe, Kangwane’s Inyandza National Movement and Ciskei’s African Democratic Movement.

“As we learn from the Bible,” said PAC national organiser Maxwell Nemadzivhanani, “Jesus Christ did not become a sinner by mixing with sinners, but instead upheld and moved them to repent. Revolutionaries shouldn’t divorce themselves from the masses under the guise of maintaining their purity.”

The PAC had previously given the impression that it did not want to work with the “regime’s puppets”. — The Weekly Mail & Guardian, February 4 to 10 1994