The role of the church is to heal our society from the atrocities of the wounds of our historical past.
This week a conglomerates of antagonistic class forces from the ranks of some of the leadership of our business and church sector opposed to the noble cause of the objectives of our national democratic revolution have once again mounted a blistering attack against the collective leadership of our movement and more particularly the democratically elected President of our movement and our Republic Cde Jacob Zuma. This coalition of forces have once again accused the leadership of our movement and our democratic government for the massive challenges of socio economic inequalities from our deep seated hostile historical past. They have joined the chorus of those who are opposed to the noble cause of our national democratic revolution.
This unprincipled and inconsistent coalition of class forces from black business, church, pseudo intellectuals, opposition parties, together with international monopoly capital are threatening to mobilize our people, the motive forces of our national democratic revolution against their own national liberation movement. They want our people to hold our National liberation movement and its leadership, particularly our own President, responsible for the atrocities and the pandemic contradictions of poverty, disease and underdevelopment arising out of the centuries of oppression and exploitation by imperialism and apartheid colonial domination.
This ferocious onslaught against our movement and its collective leadership is mounted few days just before the commencement of the proceedings of our elective national conference. The political significance of the Mangaung conference is that it heralds the end and the beginning of our struggles for the liberation of our country into the new century. This unbroken record absolves the ANC as the genuine representative of the wishes and aspirations of the people of our country.
The most painful episode to witness is the growing phenomenon that some of our church leaders are collaborating with the forces historically opposed to the strategic objectives of our national democratic revolution to reverse back the gains of our revolution. It is indeed worrisome that some of the leadership of our church can join the chorus of the enemies of our democracy to undermine the tremendous achievements the south African working class have attained in the past eighteen years of our democratic dispensation.