PAC calls for taking property from whites in South Africa

Original Post Date: 2002-05-09  Posted By: Jan

From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 5/9/2002 11:49:57 PM
PAC calls for taking property from whites in South Africa

Jonathan posted this story along with his comments on my discussion forum. It makes for interesting reading.

Am I the only one who notices that May Day, the original holiday of communists, is still the day when the world’s communists crawl out of the woodwork? They don’t call themselves commies, instead they have sucked others in and they now call themselves anti-Capitalists. Look at the violence in cities across the world. Communism is alive and well, causing trouble EVERYWHERE. Riots in Europe, North America, etc… Long Live communism!!
Jan

Jonathan Wrote:-
Notice the correlation between Workers’ Day and the call for abolishing of property rights (or property rights for whites – this will surely do little but entrench the black elite.)

Also notice how Communism actually implements itself in >PRACTICE<, not theory. Isn't the whole notion of race something that is a vestige of the bourgeoise era? I thought that race wasn't important, only class. Remember, racism was a product of capitalism (and its offshoot, colonialism) that was supposed to be ABOLISHED by Communism and its notions of worker solidarity!

The concentration of State power afforded by the Marx’ supposed “dictatorship of the proletariat” has led to absolutely nothing in Africa except for the ability of power to be concentrated in the hands of a few oppressive elites. I think the facts can speak for themselves on this one…

‘Abolish whites’ property rights’ in South Africa – call

Balfour, Mpumalanga – MAY 1, 2002 – 15:00 – The black-racist Pan Africanist Congress of Azania has chosen Workers’ Day to call for the abolishment of all property rights, now embedded in the South African constitution.

PAC deputy president Motsoko Pheko said at today’s worker’s day rally that the PAC’s campaign would focus on five areas:
– free education for all Africans;
– giving all white-owned property to blacks, (“land restitution”)
– abolishing the Constitutional clause which guarantees rights to own
property;
– cancelling apartheid-era debt ;
– opposing privatisation.

“You cannot sell the land, education, water, electricity health care and all that is sacred to the African people and then promise to deliver. You cannot continue to pay a bad debt with the money of the African people and expect to deliver public services to them.

“You cannot give all the rights to individuals and whites in the ‘property clause’ of your Constitution and still be able to deliver wealth to the African people.”

“A lie that South Africa belongs to all who live in it…”:
Pheko also drew no distinction between arable agricultural land – where people did not live in large numbers, but instead kept their land cultivated with excess food crops — and urban land sites where vast numbers of people could be accommodated: accusing white liberals who had “infiltrated” the African National Congress of “promoting the myth that South Africa belongs to all who live in it”.

“There is nowhere in the world where a country invaded by foreigners and colonised by them suddenly belongs to all that live in it; while its own indigenous owners live in filthy squatter camps and have nowhere to sleep. They are evicted from the land of their ancestors daily.”

“Africa’s black people should not allow themselves to be cheated and misled about this land issue. It is not true that in South Africa the problem was homelessness and not a lack of land.”

“Homes are not built in the air. They are built on the land. There can be no homes without land and people must be given land to build themselves decent homes, instead of these (96)`sutha re koale’ or (96)`Vezunyawo’ (jerry-rigged, poor) houses,” he said.

He called for the property clause to be abolished in the Constitution, saying it had legalised land robbery by colonialists.

Supports segregated universities for Africans only:
Strangely enough, Pheko also openly supported the apartheid-era segregated universities such as Fort Hare and in the former Transkei homeland, saying these “had educated many thousands of Africans”. (He did not call them “apartheid-era universities for Africans”, but that’s the history of these institutions…)

“The plan to now subject them (Africans) to the supremacy of white universities and Eurocentric domination will destroy the ability of Africans to lead and serve the African people,” he warned.

“Instead, African higher institutions of learning need more funding and intensive training in financial management and accountability of these funds, not subjugation.”

He repeated the PAC calls for “redistribution of land” and said that without the decisive resolution of this issue, there would be no economic and social change for Africans in South Africa.

One Boer [farmer], One Bullet: BACKGROUND: The PAC and its sidekick black-consciousness organisations such as the Azanian People’s Organisation (Azapo) had during apartheid coined the slogan “One Boer-One Bullet” – which they claimed having relinquished since apartheid ended in 1994.
However, the ongoing massacre of mainly Afrikaner farmers and family members (“Boer” refers to those people who now call themselves Afrikaners, and whose forebears were the Voortrekker-Boers who had fled from British oppression around Cape Town between 1832 and 1856 and founded their own independent Boer Republics in Natal, (Vryheid), the Orange Free State and the Transvaal).

Since 1994 more than 1,320 primarily Afrikaner farm dwellers have already been murdered in more than 7,000 armed attacks against commercial homesteads, seems to negate the PAC’s claim that they no longer supported their “One Boer, One Bullet’ ethnic-cleansing campaign.

Source: http://www.news24.com/News24/Finance/0,4186,2…

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