House Chair, it was Frantz Fanon who said:
For colonised people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.
Yesterday the president and the commander in chief of the economic emancipation movement was called before the Newcastle Magistrate Court simply because he called on all South Africans to take back what is theirs, the land.
For 25 years, our have lived with the hope that ANC will reverse centuries of dispossession which saw the African majority reduced to live in only 13% of all land. But, for 25 years, our people have been failed; yet, when the commander in chief, president Malema, made the call for people to take back what is theirs, he was simply echoing a call made by generations of freedom fighters who gave their lives to see Africa return to Africans, he was taken to court and treated like a criminal by the