As the country celebrated Freedom Day on Monday, Afrika Mayibuye Movement in the Limpopo Province has rejected “the so-called Freedom Day celebrations.”
In a statement submitted to Tshwane Talks on Monday by the party’s head of publications Matome Sebelebele, the party called for a boycott of the celebrations; describing them as meaningless.
“Our rejection and total boycott of the so-called Freedom Day celebrations is in solidarity with the Limpopo citizens who for many years now have been fooled by ANC Local and Provincial governments’ false promise of freedom,” reads the statement.
“For over thirty years the country has witnessed through ANC’s chronic, poor governance repeated betrayal of South Africans’ revolutionary aspirations for a prosperous, functional democracy,” reads the statement further.
The party says decline in governance is demonstrated by the Madlanga Commission which continues to expose the total collapse of municipal governance and police mismanagement.
The party says national government’s immigration policy continues to breed unnecessary violence between South Africans and undocumented immigrants.
“Now to cover for its poor service delivery cracks, the misdirected ANC-led GNU uses national commemoration days such as the National Freedom Day to peddle political lies to pacify and mislead society,” asserts the party.
Afrika Mayibuye says as a new political actor in South Africa the party refuses to be associated with the perpetrators’ political betrayal of South Africans, hence the organisation’s stance for a boycott of Freedom Day celebrations.
“More than 100 burning issues have been raised and captured in our Restoration Manifesto that are not abstract but lived, painful realities of black South Africans who continue to be betrayed; health care is unaffordable and the education system continues to reproduce inequality instead of dismantling it,” said the party.
According to Afrika Mayibuye Movement, freedom without land, without economic power, without dignity and without justice is not freedom at all but is deception.
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