Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala

Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala is a South African politician and former Navy admiral Quotes I don’t define African People by South African black people; I define them as [from] the continent of Africa. Some people take offence and think it is racist but I would differ because they are the most oppressed people at the moment. So my quest in life is to see the restoration of the dignity of African people and to see their liberation. Centuries of colonisation have taken the dignity of African people. It started with Arab colonisation, followed by the slave trade, followed by European colonisation, followed by one the EFF really fights now: Neo colonialism, which means Africans are colonised by whites through multi-national capital, that I call cultural slavery. The ideology of black consciousness is still needed. It’s good to be told being African is beautiful. Its good to know I don’t need to apologise to anybody for the way I look, for my culture and the way I speak. The EFF are fighting for the economic freedom of the country, of being against multinationals. Sitting on the Rules Committee and the Programme Committee, because I am one of the EFF whips. I also sit on the PC for Justice and Correctional Services and SCOPA. So it is a lot of work not withstanding the fact that I am doing my PhD research at the moment. It is good to be in the place where policy is made. As EFF we are willing to participate in a fair parliamentary debate and I hope that as the population hears our voices and the quality of our arguments and the alternatives that we are proposing, more and more of them will start seeing that surely there are alternatives to the way things are at the moment. The changes I am hoping to see in SA’s laws are for starters, nationalisation. For most white South Africans, when you mention nationalisation they will go into a frenzy. Why are they so scared of nationalisation, it will benefit them too. We cannot forever continue to be a supplier of raw materials and let Anglo-American and British Petroleum and whoever come and run the show in South Africa. They cannot dictate how we live. So the first change I want to see is the nationalisation of mines and banks to a certain extent. In my studies I looked at what is called social banking in Indonesia. Surely there are alternatives to what Nedbank, FNB and all those other banks are doing to us? Why are we choosing the European style of banking over other models? In those Indonesian banks you don’t qualify for a loan because you have got collateral, you actually qualify because you are poor. The Freedom Charter says there is an alternative but we just took capitalism straight as it is. External links Category:Living people Category:Politicians from South Africa