This year marks the most successful year in our efforts to bring the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) into existence throughout the Africa Region—an initiative which began in the previous year with the goal to fight for the minds and bodies of the oppressed black masses.
An important thing to note about colonialism is that, as a part of counterinsurgency, it uses neocolonialism as a tactic to break the confidence of black people in ourselves. This is why the Party leadership has taken efforts against the demoralization of our folk by building InPDUM as a strategic organization.
This is not something limited to the colony of South Africa. In Sierra Leone, West Africa, our leader, Morlai Conteh, consistently leads all our work and has brought the people closer to our movement after so many years of being separate from it. With him are veritable forces that work under his leadership, comrades Fenty and Preacherman, who are invested in the work of bringing our people back into political life.
In Windhoek, Namibia, in Southwestern Africa, Comrade Vela Vistoh is also organizing the building of this organization, despite the quietness of the struggle in the African continent due to the defeat of the worldwide African Revolution. With a group of like-minded sisters and brothers, he has even seen to a children’s program that is gathering traction there.
This is the same initiative being taken by comrade Finbar Lewi in Nigeria.
In South Africa, the leadership of Chairman Tafarie has led to the establishment of four branches, namely in Orange Farm, Evaton West, Fochville and Mbombela, with comrade Zakhele now moving to Swaziland to establish the fifth branch. However, his tenure as the national president of InPDUM has been passed on to Asa Somali Anpu since this year’s pre-convention, which occurred in August.
Inside the colony known as South Africa, the crisis of colonialism is ever glaring, with mismanagement of resources and rising alcoholism becoming symptoms of a system in crisis. Our people need to be captured by the Uhuru Movement because it is clear that the majority of us here still see colonialism’s crisis as our own—hence the nihilism we often see in our people.
Chairman Tafarie has put forward that mental health will have to become a norm in our mobilization of our people, and the programs that InPDUM are doing are affiliated with those of the All African People’s Development and Empowerment Program (AAPDEP) organizations. Recently, Aisha Fields, Director of AAPDEP was in South Africa, and met with InPDUM members and leaders to see what capacity we have to work together.
One of the most important things this year is gathering signatures, IDs and names in order to register this organization within the colonial system so we can contest against the rest of these organizations that don’t have a genuine plan for our people’s freedom. This is how we intend to beat neocolonialism! This is the legacy of the Uhuru Movement all over the world.
Build to Win!
Build the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement!
