Late SACP stalwart Harry Gwala Is fondly remembered by his comrades in the SACP and the ANC as a hero who feared nobody in the Tripartite Alliance, including the late Nelson Mandela.
Despite all his suffering including his harassment and incarceration by the state twice on Robben Island, his family walked on and supported him because they believed in his cause and the cause of people’s liberation. His family stood by him when he was suspended by the SACP and when he became sick and a burden on them.
Nqakula said Gwala feared nobody including Mandela and spoke his mind. In the process he tended to displayed “a tint of some arrogance, intellectual arrogance”. Nqakula said he defended Gwala “but I was not blind to the ways that Harry Gwala rubbed comrades up the wrong way”. Nqakula said he was confident that had his predecessor, Chris Hani, not been murdered at the time the decision to suspend Gwala was taken, Hani would have opposed the suspension because it was not based on any democratic principle.
Nqakula, who was minister of safety and security under the Thabo Mbeki administration, condemned the worrying trend among Alliance members who embrace personal aggrandisement and a propensity to accumulate wealth. He said patronage was presently rampant but if leaders like Gwala were alive, he would have opposed that and instead taught them about what a real revolutionary should be. not only because of his age but also as a result of being a repository of wisdom within the Alliance.
The education that we have today is not what was expected and challenged the youth at universities to debate the concept of decolonising the education system. The youth must be engaged because the university students needed to know what legacy they would leave behind for future generations. It was unfortunate that today’s youth were not interested to hear from those with experience about what to do.
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