OPINIONISTA: Should I vote ANC? By Oscar Van Heerden Oscarknysna
It’s 1986 and I have just been elected as the class representative of my standard six class. Not sure what it all means, but I meander towards a meeting called by the president of the Student Representative Council . Here I am introduced to the rest of the class reps. We total about 40 representatives.
The comrade next to me realises that I’m slightly alarmed. He whispers in my ear that usually when we hijack a train, the train driver communicates with the authorities and they instruct him to stop the train between stations in an open designated area, where the police shoot tear gas or nerve gas and attack us inside the train with dogs, sjamboks and batons.The next day I’m on the train. You are responsible for your grade’s learners, I’m told.
This was to be one of the hundreds of such engagements over the next five years of my high school life. This is also the first time I am introduced to the African National Congress and what the organisation stands for. First lesson, what does the logo of the ANC mean? A flag with the colours, black, green and gold. A spear and shield next to the flag and finally, the wheel with its four spokes.
Finally, he concludes with the wheel. Each spoke in the wheel refers to a very important alliance partner: The Transvaal Indian Congress, the Coloured Peoples Congress, the White Independent Democrats and the African Native Congress. Together in a partnership, they became the Congress Alliance.
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