Narius Moloto: "The history of Sharpeville Massacre is the uncontested history of the PAC"

Statement by the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania yesterday...

PAC statement on the 61st Anniversary of Sharpeville Massacre 20 March 2021 The Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) will mark the 61st Anniversary of the Sharpville Massacre commemoration by calling our people to take it upon themselves to ensure the return of the land to its original owners. The PAC will announce the five year land return programme, and call our people to actively participate in the programme. 

The history of Sharpeville Massacre is the uncontested history of the PAC known to the entire world. It is the history of which its events shocked the whole world, and led to the United Nations' (UN) convening its special session, and declared apartheid a crime against humanity. 

Renaming it, and calling this historic day Human Rights Day was further attempts to divert the attention from the PAC, and its historic achievements. 

Its significance amongst others is ended peaceful protests as the only used means to eliminate political oppression, and the exploitation of our people by the apartheid regime. It increased the consciousness of our people beyond the fear of death. 

It has led to the formations of the armed wings of the PAC (APLA), and subsequently the African National Congress (MK) the same year. It has raised the awareness of the international community about the evils of apartheid. 

The PAC President will tomorrow call for the end of landlessness, and demand true freedom. The African people will not be truly independent while they still depend on the same people they did during the 1960s. 

The social and economic conditions of our people remain materially unchanged. While the mass killings of our people in Sharpeville and Langa has changed the cause of our struggle in this country, and ushered in the beginning of armed struggle to overthrow the apartheid regime; the majority of our people are still suffering, and remain landless 27 years in our democracy. 

It is clear that the 1994 democratic elections, and the new government has so far only managed to consolidate the status quo which isolated the African majority from their dispossessed land, and the economy at large. The democratic government of South Africa (SA) has failed to learn from the founding fathers of the liberation movement in Africa who taught us that political freedom without economic freedom is not real. 

The founding fathers of the African National liberation movement have warned us of the dangers of trapping ourselves in the state of neo-colonialism where the economy is owned by the foreign interest, and the whole nation is striving to be employed by foreigners in their own country.