Ndebele's speech at MRP SA meeting

I would like to honor and recognize the presence of our party president Cde Mqondisi Moyo, NEC members here present, South Africa MRP provincial leadership. All protocol observed.

Good Afternoon ladies and gentlemen, comrades and friends, I am happy to be here in this month of August as we join South Africans as they celebrate the women month honoring the role played by women in the attainment of independence, democracy and the fall of apartheid.

I as a woman from Mthwakazi I feel obliged to play my role in mobilising all our Mthwakazi women back home, here in South Africa and the rest of the globe to rally behind MRP as we deservedly restore our nation of Mthwakazi. History records that we (women) have a key and important role in nation building.

On the 9th of August 1956, 20 000 women staged a march on the union buildings in Pretoria to protest against the proposed amendments to the urban Act, which is why we have a holiday here on this day.

In October  1958 , The late Mama Winnie Madikizela Mandela took part in a mass action which mobilized women to protest against the apartheid laws, it was organized by Lilian Ngoyi ,ANC's women's league president and Albertina Sisulu among others,1000 women were arrested.They took a decision not to apply for an immediate bail, forcing the state to keep them for two weeks  in prison as a strategy to further the protest, at that time Mama Winnie was   pregnant.

Back hope we have sung and unsung heroes of struggle who fought side by side against the Smith regime under Zipra. Umama uThenjiwe Lesabe was one of the few women who devoted their time in sourcing the necessary resources for both women and men in training camps. Nothing can stop us today.

I am here today to call upon the nation of Mthwakazi to stand up, I am here to encourage all women from Mthwakazi young or old to stand up and be counted. We have over three million of our people here in South Africa,  who most of whom did not freely choose to be here, but they were either forced out of the country during the 1983 to 87 Gukurahundi genocide or they were frustrated by the level of the institutionalised system of tribalism promoted and sponsored by government.

Some despite their qualifications, they have been overlooked back home. We have thousands of our people that were removed from their farming land, some were either removed from their mining claims which they legally obtained, while others to date are being removed from their work places and the list of problems bedevilling our people goes on and on.

Now is time to say enough is enough, women I am speaking to you today, rise up and fight for your nation and your children's future.

Nothing for us without us. Zimbokodo we can do this, I have a lot of women in mind who have stood up for their countries nothing can stop us from pushing the Mthwakazi Restoration Agenda Forward.

Wathintu mama wathinti mbokodo

Amandla

Thank you, siyabonga

Sehliselo Ndebele MRP Bulawayo provincial organising secretary.