Hands off our SG! MKMVA denounces attacks on the Secretary General of the ANC, Comrade Ace Magashule, and pledges to defend him
1 April 2019
The Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) is angered by the baseless propagandistic attacks that are being launched against the Secretary General of the African National Congress, comrade Ace Magashule. These attacks have been going on for years, and have increased significantly in intensity and vitriol after comrade Magashule was elected the Secretary General of the ANC at the ANC’s 54th National Conference at NASREC. This Stratcom like propaganda campaign has apparently now reached a crescendo with the fake news book published by Pieter Louis Myburgh, which the Sunday Times and the City Press - those notorious peddlers of fake news - yesterday promoted with screaming headlines.
It is no coincidence that this propaganda campaign is now intensifying barely two months before election day on the 8th of May 2019. MKMVA agrees with the media statement of our Mother body, the ANC, that this is a well-calculated attack not only on the person of our Secretary General, but in fact on the Office of the Secretary General (SGO), which is the administrative engine room of the ANC, and critical for our election campaign efforts. The ultimate intention is to undermine the ANC’s election campaign, and thus, the Secretary General, as the CEO of the ANC, is the main target.
In addition to the intention to damage the ANC’s election campaign, MKMVA is of the belief that comrade Ace Magashule is also being singled out for attack because of his strong and uncompromising support for Radical Economic Transformation (RET) in general, and specifically for the speedy and full implementation of the pro RET Resolutions of the 54th National Conference of the ANC, with regards to the expropriation of land without compensation and the nationalization of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB).
We applaud comrade Magashule for his consistent and fearless championing of Radical Economic Transformation, and his commitment that the black poor (especially Africans) must be empowered through a fundamental and radical restructuring of the South Africa economy - especially the radical transformation of our banking and financial institutions that will bring an end to the power of White Monopoly Capital (WMC) to trample on and exploit the majority black of South Africans. Evidently this courageous and principled revolutionary stance of our Secretary General has turned him into the number one target and enemy of White Monopoly Capital, and the mainstream media that they own and use as their propagandistic battering rams against true revolutionaries.