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ON RESPONSIBILITY, ALLIANCE AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION
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ON RESPONSIBILITY, ALLIANCE AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION

By Fumene George Tsibani: There is a time for rhetoric, and a time for responsibility! Let us speak plainly about the pain faced by workers in South Africa today. Since 1994, the South African Communist Party ( SACP)  has been deployed, with resources and in positions of influence, across the key clusters of our state: the economy, education, science and technology. These are precisely the levers required to build a 21st-century developmental state. The question of wisdom, therefore, is not who to blame, but what we have built. To externalise failure and place the full burden upon the African National Congress ( ANC) is neither strategic nor truthful. It is an accusation that seeks to mask SACP leadership incompetencies behind Allian...
OPINION: MK soldiers who perished in Mpumalanga combat remembered
Opinion

OPINION: MK soldiers who perished in Mpumalanga combat remembered

By Harold Lekhuleni Harold Lekhuleni, senior member of the Oral History Association of South Africa and History Subject Advisor of Bohlabela District, Mpumalanga Department of Education This month marks the 40th anniversary of the skirmish that took place between one of the gallant Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) cadre, Frank Thabane and the apartheid South African Police (SAP). It was on 19 March 1985 at around 12h00 when a police contingent flooded the house of Thabo Chiloane at Bafaladi Village in Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, where Thabane was harboured. When the apartheid police arrived in the house, they instructed all the occupants to come out and they complied except Thabane who clearly understood that the mission of the police was to capture ...