House Chair, one of the guiding lights of the EFF is Frantz Fanon, whose birthday it was on the 20th of this month, once told us that each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfil it or betray it.
Today once more, Chairperson, we are called upon to forget our petty political differences and to forge a united front to fulfil, not only this generation's mission, but mission of generations past and generations to come.
The resolution of the land question in South Africa transcends this generation. It is a nation for which many of our forefathers died for and killed brutally. A mission which must be fulfilled for any of those who come after us to prosper on our land. No one has been better placed as we are to for once and all change the constitutional super structure of the country to reflect the pain from where we come form as black people.
And the glory which awaits us, if we are bold enough, brave enough, daring enough and progressive enough.
Section 25 of the Constitution is currently stands, draws a moral equivalence between the rights of the dispossessed and the rights of the dispossessor. It makes the settler equal to the dispossessed native, it brushes out the pain of dispossession, it requires the dispossessed to pay the dispossessor for the land that was acquired brutally.
The Sixth Parliament has rare opportunity to redress all these past wrong to allow the natives who have lost so much to reclaim their dignity back by getting our land back.
As we have led this process before, we will lead it again.
The property clause must and will be amended. And the land will be expropriated without compensation for equal redistribution and use.
No longer shall we have a tiny, tiny circle minority owning the bulk of land in South Africa. No longer shall we be treated as slaves in our own land, never.
The EFF will participate in the ad hoc committee to make sure that the ANC does not even introduce artificial amendments,
because we are here to make sure that we get our land back to the rightful owners, which is the black people. Amandla! [All the power.] [Applause.]
HON MEMBERS: Awethu! [To the people.]