Honouring Marikana
THE 4th anniversary of the Marikana Massacre concurrently takes place when students are considering going to the street to demand free education.
The struggle of workers and students shall be inseparable as such are interdependent to one another. They therefore should be treated as a uniform tenet. The students’ struggle also takes place when the once dominant ANC is slowly losing power because of its liberal policies and blatant corruption.
We fully support any call which seeks to address student and worker issues. We are saying that #FeesMustFall and that forward with #MinimumLivingWage.
We are asking South Africans and non-South Africans to go to their nearest churches and hold prayers tomorrow to remember the fallen and gallant heroes who died in vain for demanding the plight of workers. Those who are in the platinum belt should visit the Nkaneng mountain to also pay tribute. We hail the contribution made by this giant in the workers’ struggle circles, we salute them profusely.
The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) did not organise an event for the 4th anniversary of the saddest and brutal Marikana Massacre, which stole about 34 innocent souls of poor miners, who were peacefully demanding a wage adjustment. We were unable to organise something as we were deeply confronted by this highly competitive polls.
We have dedicated our improved election results to the victims of Marikana who have been forgotten by our own government, which played an instrumental role in exterminating their souls. We are however consoling ourselves to see the brutal Marikana Massacre haunting the once dominant governing party, which today is not immune to politics of coalition; the party which used to grab a municipality by an overwhelming majority has become the official opposition in some councils.
The PAC have also won some support when we look at the figures. People who voted for us in 2016 have increased profusely due to “dirty votes” which the ANC’s Nomvula Mokonyane did not want. We decided to welcome those “dirty votes” and build from the bottom as we are preparing to do well in the 2019 general polls.
The land struggle which we have been advocating is still continuing as we have seen workers been exploited, and police are used to mediate such a labour issue while bosses are hiding in the suburbs.