We reflect on those eight painful days of September 2008

Rev Frank Chikane's book

Hey everybody, and welcome to the Tuesday Book Corner.

Every Tuesday, will be looking at some books that we need to digest, review or maybe properly look at the message behind them.

picture from M&G internet

As you can see that this week, we going inside parliament with the man of God as we reflect on those eight painful days of September 2008.

The first edition of the book  was published by Picador Africa in 2012. The author, clergy, Rev Frank Chikane gives us  a blow by blow account of damages that the African National Congress 52nd annual Conference held in Polokwane cost the liberation movement and the country as a whole.

Youtube video of me outside the then Malema house in |Sandton and also talking about my personal encounter

This also makes us understand why the current president Cyril Ramaphosa was urging for unity when he took  the presidential office in 2019.

The ANC had become a very strange organization that even I or many of us who grew up in the organization before 1994 could not relate to it nor did we fit in.

Somehow, the conference held in Polokwane managed to breed undisciplined, greedy and impatient cadres. This was so un ANC, I tell you.

That organization had always prided itself with disciplined cadre.

 From the time lawyer, Pixley ka Isaka Seme,journalist, Sol Plaatje, educator, John Langalibale Dube and Izwi Labantu founder, Walter Rubusana gathered  in Bloemfontein to form the South African Native National Congress in Bloemfontein. 

Founders of the ANC were all well educated people Pic from Wikipedia  

It's foundation was always rooted in Christian beliefs or anything that promotes good cause for the people.

Did they have any disagreement, yes they probably had but to the extend of humiliating and forcefully remove a seating president? That was so unheard of.

Through the book, the Rev take us to the events build up of the Polokwane Conference, which he describe as having tested the foundation of our new born democratic state to the limit with great risk of destabilisation and reversal of the democratic gains made.

From the 19/09/2008, umfundisi gives detail encounter as someone who worked in the presidency and exposed to the angry NGOKU!!! squad who were from the post Polokwane Conference.

Like spoilt children, the squad wanted things done their way and done so urgently. 

They didn't want to listen to any other voice of reason. Nor did they see the need to respect anyone.

I mean, humiliating a man who has lived his whole life for the ANC.

The error made by Judge Chris Nicholson was makes you question many things about the country.

Anyway, umfundisi was not revealing much in this book and I think has said some of the things in his follow up book.