The MKP leader, Mr. Jacob Zuma, says that the people of this country will continue to struggle if there are still people who are still sitting in the party he left, the ANC.
Zuma said that the people of this country will point out that they will all abandon the ANC.
He said this at the MKP event to celebrate Independence Day in Pretoria on Monday.
“Let them tell you and those who are left behind that if we are left behind we will always suffer. Those who come over there will rule our country. We will rule our country. Tell others that the time to rule our country has come.”
In this event, MKP remembered the soldier who was killed by the apartheid government, Mr. Solomon Mahlangu. Mahlangu was sentenced to death at the age of 22 in 1979.
Zuma said he was a soldier who dedicated himself to fighting for the country’s freedom.
“We were willing to die with him if it meant dying. He gave himself up in such a small struggle.”
Zuma said they will continue to celebrate Mahlangu and other heroes who fought for freedom.
He said Mahlangu and other heroes who fought for freedom including the one who became the country’s first president under a democratic regime, Mr. Nelson Mandela, are not members of the ANC.
“He is not an ANC person. We trained him and sent him to fight apartheid. We are Mkhonto, he was also Mkhonto. No one will tell us that he is not ours. People who did nothing and then they say that he is our person. It is not the case. We cannot have a conflict when we have to remember our soldier.
“What we are doing is based on the wishes of the family. We are not saying that others are not doing it. They will do it in their own time. No one will take the Mandelas away from us. Mkhonto was built by the Mandelas. No one will take these old people away from us.”