Ahead of the anniversary of his death, the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania held a banquet in honour of its founding father, Robert Sobukwe, in Langa at the weekend.
Several PAC luminaries attended the event, where one of the party’s stalwarts, Professor Sipho Shabalala, was the main speaker. He stuck rigidly to the party’s old prescriptions for South Africa in his message to the faithful.
Shabalala touched on the current political climate in South Africa, and the possibility of a change in government come 2019.
While the ANC faced the possibility of electoral defeat, Shabalala said “a new political and governance structure supportive of substantive democracy must replace the existing dispensation”.
“The prevailing entrenched social order in this country is promoting strife, low-key incessant revolt and festering instability.
“Under these conditions everyone is badly affected: worse of course are the poor and the wretched of the Earth,” said Shabalala.