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EFF CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
Thursday, 24 December 2020
The Economic Freedom Fighters wishes all Africans in the country, the continent and the
diaspora a Revolutionary Christmas and a prosperous New Year. In the midst of the global
pandemic, we urge all members of society to keep safe and practice kindness, empathy and
consideration for all those around us during what is a festive season clouded by loss and
sadness.
May we practice the spirit of Ubuntu and help those who are needy without expecting
recognition or anything in return. On this day which signifies the birth of Christ, may we use
his values to guide how we reflect on the past year and forge into 2021. We encourage South
Africans to be overcome by a spirit of justice rather than complacency in poverty and
corruption. We encourage young people to disrupt the status quo should it denigrate he land
of Africans and it’s people and may poverty and squalor cease to define black people in the
land of their birth.
As COVID-19 ravages poor communities, we urge all those who have to give to those who do
not. Whenever able to, those who have in society must donate clothes, a meal or any
necessary amenities to the poor, whose festive season is no different from their daily realities.
Our thoughts are with those who are without families, are with those who do not know where
their next meal is going to come from and those who cannot return to their homes as a result
of trauma or abuse. We must renew our commitment of uprooting Gender-Based Violence in
all of its manifestations and never adopt a ‘mind your own business attitude’ in the face of
the abuse of women and children.
In this festive season, let us all be cognizant of our landless and the oppressive conditions
that overdetermine our lives. This festive season we must reflect on the fact that almost half
of the population is unemployed, that graduates loiter our streets with large debt and
qualifications and that farm workers live like livestock in the land that they work. We must
accept that a white-minority parades our country with a sense of entitlement, bullying and
killing black people and institutions at will, while protected by a decaying former liberation
movement.
There must never be a period where we forget our realities, of migrant labour and
underdevelopment of our rural areas, where our parents, grandmothers and siblings reside.
We must mark this festive season as one of not abandoning our communities or forget the
pain of being black in South Africa, rather it must be a festive season in which we renew our
commitment to justice and Economic Freedom.
We encourage everyone to remain safe in the midst of the deadly Corona Virus, and take of
their health, sanitizing and wearing their mask whenever they leave their homes. We must
survive this deadly pandemic in order to see the original sin of land dispossession being
reversed in our lifetime.
A Revolutionary Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Stay Safe!
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