ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS RESPONSE TO MR. RONALD LAMOLA:
Economic Freedom Fighters have noted the statements of Mr. Ronald Lamola, former Deputy President of the ANC Youth League on the determination of Economic Freedom Fighters to continue the struggle for total economic emancipation of the people of South Africa (see Star report).
Mr. Lamola makes hilarious comments and calls on the youth not to support their own struggle for economic freedom in our lifetime because he believes that this struggle can be pursued through the Zuma National Task Team (ZNTT), which replaced the elected structures of the ANC Youth League and currently on rampage of destroying the Provincial, Regional and basic structures of the organisation.
As true Fighters for economic emancipation, we would not respond to Mr. Lamola because in any way, radical and militant youth have never taken him serious, particularly after he knelt in front of Jacob Zuma to beg for forgiveness, but got kicked whilst on his knees.
But because his remarks have potential to mislead society, it is fit to respond to him and remind him that he was spring-boarded to National Leadership of the ANC Youth League as a result of the insistence of DD Mabuza, his erstwhile Employer who had then committed to carry the struggle for radical change until the ANC 53rd national conference in Mangaung.
As "Acting President", Lamola had already drifted away from the resolutions of the ANC Youth League 24th National Congress and joined the chorus of neo-liberal reformists in the ANC, who believed that SA's economy can be made to benefit all people without radical economic shifts called for in the Freedom Charter.