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1 ANC Today VOTE ANC 33 VOICE OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS DAYS LEFT 05 -11 April 2019 Conversations with the President Guest Feature: Cde Naledi Pandor Minister of Higher Education Education and Training, Health and Science and Technology e ready ourselves to celebrate available to our government and country. and commemorate many It provides details of how we will further fallen heroes, heroines and Throughout this manifesto improve the lives of South Africans with your stalwarts of our movement. full support and mandate. We extoll several leaders we have emphasised that When the President of the African National who fell in April. Their Congress, Comrade Cyril Ramaphosa, launched memory and contribution are imprinted on our ours is your plan. It is by the 2019 ANC National Election Manifesto movement’sW history. They are and will always at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in eThekwini be leaders of the African National Congress on Saturday, 12 January, he described the and we shall mark their undying contribution all of us and about all of manifesto as A People’s Plan for a Better throughout the month of April. Life for All! We recall Comrade Oliver Reginald Tambo, us, South Africans, Black We are here today to speak to you and to the Cde Chris Hani, Cde Mama Charlotte Maxeke, nation about this People’s Plan with special Comrade Winne Mandela, Cde Braam Fisher, and White, young and old, focus on Basic Education, Higher Education Cde Molefi Sefularo and many others. and Training, Health Science and Technology. The election manifesto of the ANC makes the rural and urban. Progress has been made in schools but the call of “Let us grow South Africa together!” with matter of quality learning and teaching will a very clear understanding of the resources continue to be a key priority. continues on page 3 Why we should Passenger Rail, Copyright revitalise and Amendment and keeping the re-energise the Performers wheels turning Veterans League Protection Bill 4 6 10 [email protected] Follow us on @MyANC 011 376 1000 Connect with ANC Today and be part of the Follow Us @MyANC Twitter page conversation via our social media platforms. www.anctoday.org.za Follow @myanc_ on Instagram Visit our interactive ANC Website CONNECT WITH US www.anc1912.org.za View @MyANC on YouTube 2 ANC Today EDITORIAL Heroes of the Battle of the Mutale River “Our wombs carried soldiers, not out of our own choices but out of the will of God. We thank the ANC that after 25 years of their deaths, we can Ayanda Dlodlo is the Deputy Minister for Public Service and century old value system that the rear for his fellow fighters. now be reunited Administration and a member of include discipline, selfless service, This story tells how the Truth the African National Congress revolutionary morality, truth and and Reconciliation process failed with our loved one (ANC) National Executive justice. These are the people who some and exposed the bigotry and Council( NEC). still have hope in the ANC as the sheer cruelty of those who visited and rebury them in true liberator of the sons and untold misery on our people and daughters of our land, an African Mrs Nkabinde the whereabouts of the remains of total disregard for this process dignity” National Congress that promotes their loved ones was closed. “They This story paints a picture of that which Oliver Tambo, Moses hese are words that were true patriots who sacrificed hope, love and belie, a story of Kotane, Charlotte Maxeke, Lilian most South Africans their lives for our freedom. Their South African Women and the cause of struggle will never be Ngoyi lived for. That is an ANC and today would take for pain they had to endure, and 19 the people for whom Ahmed Timol, granted and probably deserted” Vuyisile Mini, Makhosi Nyoka and years after liberation, only then not even care because The only closure they can speak many others died for. They did could they find closure through after only 19 years of of now is that of closure in so far not live and die for themselves or the work of their government and democracy, having been reminded as the finding, handing over to the African National Congress or not through the benevolence of toT forget about the past so many family and the laying of the human some self serving cause…they died peace-time activists. times, others actually have. Not remains of their loved ones is for the liberation of the people of As we celebrate the Women of so for the families of the four concerned. They can carry their South Africa. heroes of uMkhonto weSizwe pride with dignity and openly now, South Africa, let us give a thought These are the stories not only who were recently handed the they can smile with contentment to those mothers who suffered in correct remains of their children, and cry for joy. of those who fought but also of silence for all these years hoping 25 years after they were killed by “The bible says pray for those those who lived and carry the that one day they will receive the the former Venda Defence Force that are in authority so that we can pain and scars with them to this mortal remains of their children and South African Defence Force. live in peace. Out of this prayer day. The parents and relatives for a dignified funeral in marked who only in June 2013 could lay Not so too for the families who we have now been able to get the graves. Let us also spare a thought their heroic children to their final still wait to receive the remains correct remains of our loved ones for those mothers who wait in pain resting place in dignity in marked of their loved ones killed by the for reburial,” the Nkosi Family that the next remains exhumed poignantly remarked. graves. governments of PW Botha and would be those of their children. This is the second time these These are the heroes of our FW de Klerk We cling on to perpetual hope “This is a day we have been family go through this process. revolution, who learnt in struggle that the killers of Nokuthula waiting for. A day where we as a They were initially given the wrong that for every cent the ANC gives Simelane would show Ubuntu, family finally know the location of remains to rebury, an indication you, in the name of the people, point out her grave so that her the remains of our loved one. It is of the many flaws of the TRC you had to account, that for every the tears and their blood that has process, but also the disdain of spent bullet you had to account, for mother could bury her in dignity given us the freedom we enjoy those that never came forward the material that was lost because in a marked grave and close the today. We thank the ANC and we with the truth during that process. of a careless mistake the price to chapter on pain and begin the thank the government for giving These are a few among many of pay was heavy. And it mattered process of healing. If our call for us dignity,” said Mr Mofokeng, us who still live with the gaping not whether the material was a the return of the mortal remains speaking on behalf of the Letsela wounds of the past. These families pamphlet or an RPG-7 (Bazooka) of yesterday’s heroes to their family. have only begun the process of In retelling the story of the mothers cannot be made louder, Words of thanks that resonate healing on the 23rd of June 2013. battle, one of the survivors of the then we would have failed them with a lot of us who were part It is these families, in their humility Mutale Battle recalls how he had and their mothers. to calculate the point at which of this history, having given up and strength, who suffer silently When some are getting so licking their wounds These are the he could shoot at the enemy everything including our lives to impatient and cruelly asking us to ensure the liberation of the people. families who turn their hope not to because “I couldn’t be reckless forget about the past and move The legacy and pain of apartheid anybody but the African National with the ammunition because on, the call to our government is looms large for victims who were Congress and the government these Russian bullets were given to hunt those who perpetrated direct and personal recipients of to help them close these painful to us to liberate our people and the vestiges of this brutal system. chapters and start the process they were expensive. They were these crimes so that the process of healing so that their lives can very expensive” At that point he of healing can begin for those who The Lukhele family also pointed begin in earnest. thought not of himself but how have yet to find closure. out that they were relieved that These are the people for whom he could maximize fire power to As the late Comrade Makasi they now have closure in this the African National Congress neutralize the enemy and create once said, “we remain prisoners matter, saying that the chapter on should continue to uphold its a safe passage for withdrawal to of hope” 3 ANC Today EDITORIAL continued from page 1 Education and Training, Health and Science and Technology In higher education new bursary scheme will continue to support Achievements since 2014: the access and success of poor Universities talented students.