Members of the March to March movement took to the streets in recent demonstrations, drawing attention and controversy over their rhetoric and the broader debate on immigration, crime, and social cohesion in South Africa.
As a veteran of the liberation struggle, former national spokesperson of the African National Congress, and now an EFF Member of Parliament, I have witnessed firsthand the brutal machinations of those who seek to divide Black South Africans against each other.
In the early 1990s, as our nation teetered on the brink of democracy, a sinister “third force” operated with cold calculation. It was not some phantom but a deliberate, systematic campaign of violence and provocation designed to fracture Black communities along ethnic lines, derail negotiations, and preserve the dying embers of apartheid.
Today, that same evil rears its head in the form of the so-called March to March movement led by Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma. We must denounce it with the contempt it deserves – a pathetic, Afrophobic, racist, and reactionary force funded by those who fear a united Black South Africa and a united Africa.
I remember the early 1990s with a clarity forged in blood and grief. As head of the ANC’s media liaison unit and spokesperson to President Nelson Mandela, I was at the coalface of the transition.
