The struggle against Apartheid continues in the Western Cape, ANC

So here’s what happened. There was this anniversary celebration for the United Democratic Front (UDF), launched in the Western Cape back in 1983. Helen Zille fought the apartheid regime as a member of the UDF, so did many other prominent South Africans. In fact, the UDF was where you’d be able to make a change from within South Africa during the time, as most other liberation movements were banned.

Anyway, the anniversary was supposed to celebrate the struggle of the UDF, but was marred by the Western Cape ANC’s secretary, Faiez Jacobs, claiming that the struggle against apartheid continues in the DA-led Western Cape. Just for interest sake, the United Nations ranks the Western Cape as South Africa’s most equal province, according to the Gini Coefficient.

“As thousands this week commemorate the anniversary of this proud organisation, a disturbing trend is noticed where some revise history and carve a role for them where none existed. Today, 21 years after democracy and 32 years after the launch of the UDF, the struggle against colonialism and apartheid still remains in the Western Cape where the UDF was launched.”

 

According to News24, Jacobs called on anyone willing to listen to “rekindle the spirit of the UDF’s mass mobilisation to oppose the provincial government’s policy to declare war on the African and coloured working class and poor communities of our province.”

Helen Zille’s office wasted no time to hit back at Jacobs.

“The ANC has no record of good governance in the Western Cape, no policy platform in opposition, no answer to the rampant corruption in its ranks today.”