On the occasion of the 73rd Anniversary of the ANC, delivering its NEC’s 1985 January Statement, then president, Oliver Reginald Tambo directed the youth to render South Africa ungovernable.
On the occasion of the 73Anniversary of the ANC, delivering its NEC’s 1985 January Statement, then president, Oliver Reginald Tambo directed the youth to render South Africa ungovernable. What followed this command was resistance by an inspired generation of young people who confronted the apartheid government with stones forcing it to announce a partial state of emergency on 20 July 1985.
Others were always on the run but sometimes unlucky to find themselves in detention like Dipuo Peters, Ignatius Jacobs and Jerry Ndou. The launch of the United Democratic Front in 1983 had made it easier for the ANC in exile to coordinate its internal operations including mass mobilization, underground activities and resistance events.
Clearly, the aforementioned definition of a cadre is an automatic exclusion of too many a leaders in ANC ranks today. Tambo was clearly not talking about these suspicious cohort when he said: “we need cadres of unquestionable loyalty, dedication and understanding of our struggle.” There are two ways of describing this missing middle. One is through actual personalities, while the other is via the character of that cadre that rendered South Africa ungovernable. The ANC and, by extension, South African government, are missing the quality of the 80s and early 90s youth activist.
The rest opt to enjoy some acquired social status usually characterized by uncontrolled consumption of alcohol, love for exclusive joints and general chaotic tendencies. And it this alcohol gang that has infiltrated structures of the ANC. They have mastered the art of dangling the material carrot at a desperately poor youths who aspire for comfort and popularity.
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