Much has been said and debated on the succession issue. Much has been the forefront of media agenda on who should and will succeed President Mbeki. Also much has been argued on whether or not the ANC is in a leadership crisis and further to presume the faction within the spheres of leadership in the ANC.
These speculations and assertions have emerged within the ANC, but not by the ANC. These speculations as well as assertions and others yet to be made and said pose no threat to the broad church of our masses, but on the credibility of the future leadership of the people’s movement. The movement has survived the intensive and scathing attacks of the apartheid regime and surely will sail through the empty back door commentary from the faceless villains of the people’s liberation.
Every household comprises of a family, a family consisting of individuals and individuals with an independent thinking. Therefore as a broad church housing different races, genders, religions and thinkers from different schools of thought, the movement is bound to be in dialog. This and other features are characteristics of the ANC as a broad church representing the full masses of our country. The broad movement has engaged on an international dialog on economic and social issues affecting the country and the continent at large. These and the many other efforts dictate our acknowledgement as a nation that our movement is and endlessly capable to advance the course of a united front. This assertion contemplates no mediocre media or public speculation, however, vindicates the country’s social and economic growth as the forefront agenda of the people’s movement.
From Queenstown in 1953 to 1 May 1969 at Morogoro, from Kwabe 6 July 1985 Stellenbosch in 2002, from Chief Albert Luthuli in 1952 to Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki in 1997, from the National Democratic Revolution at Morogoro 1 May 1969 to the Global Politico-Economic Revolution in 1994 and membership to the Security Council in 2007, the Mass Democratic Movement of our people has been in dialogue on challenges facing our beautiful peoples of South Africa and the continent at large, and will continue to engage on these issues in Africa and the rest of the world. It is up to us whether we wither as a nation and as a country or we blossom so.
South Africa has a population of its own kind, which is united in diversity. These and many characteristics of our society we must preserve and admire. We have had a unique political transition, despite the factions we had outside this land for this is a clear pointer that we are united in diversity. We contradict in unison. Our dialog must talk to the best interest of our nation and more to that of our land. We therefore must realize that we must have a dialog of this nature so that we may settle for a balanced solution.
South Africa first!
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