The apparition of the PAC leader Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe will be in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, to guide the Africanists towards paths of solid unity, light, and peace. It is Jaki Seroke, PAC secretary for finance, who evokes the idea of the metaphorical presence of Sobukwe at the national congress scheduled for December 11 to 14. “This is what our preeminent ancestor Sobukwe would want things to look like.
And we know he will be present, and among us in our deliberations as we seek unity among all Africanists. “Azania has had too many unsavoury conflicts, and failures, and distraction. We invoke the spirit of Sobukwe to guide us in our deliberations.
“As we set to resolve our difficulties. Peace among Africanists must be something that lurks uppermost in our minds,” said Seroke. Seroke describes the national elective congress on Thursday as “watershed”, an event that ought to mark a turning point in rebuilding a strong and cohesive organisation.
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He says over the past few years the PAC has been working hard to move away from “the darkness of conflict into light of progress and development”. “We don’t bother about little sideshows calculated to distort the bigger picture of what our mission ought to be. We are concerned more about the bigger picture of ensuring the PAC makes an impact in the lives of the Africanists who desperately seek direction.
The upcoming congress will spell the way forward,” added Seroke. “Sobukwe, that imposing figure who so well represented the aspirations of the African people during his lifetime, is looking up from his grave to us to complete the mission of returning the land to the indigenous people, and this is the mission we hope to accomplish under the leadership of our president, comrade Mzwanele Nyhontso. Seroke said the PAC harbours no regrets for being part of the government of national unity (GNU).
He believes that through Nyhontso and the PAC, a strategic path was being carved to advance the land question of reclaiming the land “for the sake of the indigenous people who were pushed off it by colonialism and apartheid systems”. “Of all the participants in the GNU, we are the smallest, yet without doubt we are making an impact, punching well above our weight, and more than at any time, we are making significant progress, bit by bit, to return the land to the dispossessed African masses.
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