black people are hated all over the world discriminated against all over
the world and are described as the moral problem in society welcome to the African
leadership Series where we bring you great inspirational speeches of African leaders
and Fighters we are gathered here as the eff and marks a great and significant Milestone not only
for itself but for the liberation of all of our people and the return of the land a decade ago
we undertook the task of building a movement that will place that will be a place for Refugee for
the poor a shoulder to lean on for the abused a source of strength for the exploited a place
where those who have historically been forgotten can find their identity and ultimately liberate
themselves our glorious movement was born through consensus of the poor and consensus
of those who had come to realize that political Freedom achieved in 1994 was meaningless without
economic freedom our movement was formed on the ideological basis and correct understanding that
our political system had fallen victim to the hands of the corrupt few who had no interest
of achieving the ultimate aim of a generations of anti-colonial struggles namely the return of
the land and mineral wealth of African people we are a movement that was formed on the objective
analysis of the conditions that confront our people which was and remains increasingly the
levels of poverty continued in human living conditions which perpetuate apartheid rest is
special planning landlessness joblessness racial inequality and massive exclusion of Africans from
the economy and the means of production our existence remains a response to the lack of
respect to the African Child space faces here in South Africa in the continent and the diaspora we
are a response to the criminalization of the black scheme and the permanent War which has
been raised on the black people by those who have always been our historical enemies perhaps most
impainfully our movement was formed as a necessary resistance after the painful realization that the
former Liberation movement that indeed become a weapon in the hands of white Monopoly capital and
a weapon whose Target was black and poor people we were born out of the blood of marikana not
only to avenge our people but to ensure that such devastating tragedy never happens again we
must we were formed as an answer to the cries of widows of marikana who buried their husbands sons
and brothers not knowing why they were executed without Mercy the eff and the Americana Massacre
can never be separated because it was those Mine Workers those widows and those fatherless
children who with tears in their eyes demanded the birth of this movement it was the blood that was
soaked into the soil of marikana that demanded the formation of this movement as we sit here today we
marked 10 years of answering to those cries fellow Fighters the responsibility Upon Our shoulders is
as old as the struggle against Colonial Conquest itself I said this not to intimidate you but to
help you appreciate the responsibility you have so that you never take it for granted you must
never take it for granted that our people find Hope in the red beret and the red t-shirt of the
eff you must never underestimate that our people are intelligent enough to know that we are the
true custodian of their history and we are the only capable enough to lead them into the future
the moment you take for granted the historical task that has been given to us is when will betray
the past and fill the future the moment you regard your responsibility as a burden and you conduct
your work not out of service to the revolution but out of compliance is one you must know that
you have taken the calling of leading the eff for granted you must know where we come from you must
know why the eff exists otherwise you'll make your revolutionary Duty as a job obligation and
as a result nothing you do will be inspired by the ideals of Liberation and love for the people
one of the most revolutionary responsibility we have as leaders of the eff is to have an undying
love for our people this is because you will never make a sacrifice for a course you do not love
and for a people you do not love you will never sacrifice time away from your family if you resent
the work that comes with liberating African people and that work comes with being amongst Africans
if you do not love our people you will resent deployment because deployment takes you away
from those you find comfort with and takes you to the trenches where our people are suffering
you must love our people if you have any intention of liberating them there is no Liberation without
love and this task is so difficult because it requires you to love a hated people black people
are hated and have been and have been programmed to hate themselves to love a black person is such
a revolutionary exercise because it requires of you to love that which is socially economically
politically dead and defeated black people are hated all over the world discriminated against
all over the world and are described as the moral problem in society we are a people so
difficult to love because it means loving a defeated being our task as revolutionaries
is therefore to show love to black people and show them that they remain a possibility of Victory and
life even though the world designed to defeat and dehumanize them one of the first responsibility
we continue to Bear therefore is to be present and lead the struggle of our people the presence
requires a deliberate effort to conscientize black people and make them realize their own
Humanity we have a responsibility to show black people that their Humanity cannot coexist with
poverty helplessness and humiliation and to show them that their conditions are not normal
it is through Consciousness that will liberate them and show them the path to economic freedom
this however cannot be achieved without the Vanguard movement such as the eff it is critical
that we build a 10 years that we have achieved in existence the foundation has been laid our
duty is not to become complacent going into the next 10 years of struggle for economic freedom
of African people we must revisit our founding ideas our purpose and our objectives and prepare
ourselves to govern we must revisit the core principles so that we do not forget who we are
and why we exist this is important comrade because we are said to become a new generation of politics
not only in South Africa but in the continent we are said with the task of breaking the curse of
post-colonial Liberation movement will become consumed with self-interest and Corruption and
have no ability to lead our people into Promised Land of Independence attendance and prosperity
the eff is an opportunity for all African people to truly achieve Liberation we are an opportunity
to build a thriving African continent that participate in the world on equal footing
and not as a stepchild of the imperialists all of you therefore as objectively the best which
the eff has to offer in terms of leadership and capacity must know that you are in service
of the millions of Africans who came before us and fought for our dignity and freedom you are
Servants of the slain in marikana you are the descendants of those who are massacred in the
wars of disposition and you carry the inheritance of fighting the return the inheritance of fighting
for the return of the land we must fellow Fighters and commissars begin at the beginning
at the beginning and remember who we are so that the last 10 years become a springboard
to Liberation and not yet another historical mistake in the Quest for Liberation in Africa
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