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AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS

Many South Africans pervert the Pan-African struggle to remain compliant with minority white rule!

1. The PAC's Foundational Position: Africa for the Africans.

The PAC, founded by Robert Sobukwe in 1959 as a breakaway from the ANC, rejected the Freedom Charter's multiracial formulation as an ideological trap. For the PAC and the Africanist tradition:

· Land is the primary theft. Colonialism was not just political subjugation; it was a land robbery. Therefore, the struggle is not for equal rights within a settler state, but for the restoration of the land to its indigenous African owners. "Africa for the Africans" means the land and its resources must return to the dispossessed African majority, not be shared with the descendants of those who stole it.

· Settlers must renounce their colonial privilege. The PAC position was never a crude biological racism. Sobukwe explicitly stated that white people who repudiate white supremacy and accept that they are African, without claiming a superior right derived from conquest, could be welcomed. But they must come as humble guests, not as co-owners of stolen property. The onus is on the settler to decolonize themselves and forfeit ill-gotten wealth.

· No compensation for stolen land. Expropriation of land without compensation is non-negotiable. Paying the thief for what he stole is a second crime. The Freedom Charter's generous multiracialism, without this uncompromising land program, was seen by the PAC as leaving the economic foundation of settler-colonialism intact while offering political assimilation.

This is a profoundly socialist and Pan-Africanist vision, because it understands that the racial hierarchy is maintained by material dispossession. You cannot cure the disease by inviting the settler to remain a landlord over the dispossessed.

2. The Ideological Hijack: How Nativist Groups Impersonate the PAC Tradition.

Today's anti-African immigration groups—Operation Dudula, the Patriotic Alliance, and similar formations—deliberately borrow language that sounds like this Africanist tradition. Slogans like "South Africans first" and "putting our people first" echo the PAC's call for African primacy. This is a fraudulent impersonation and recognizing it is essential to exposing their collaboration with white monopoly capital.

· The PAC's target was the white settler-colonial landowner. Their analysis identified the enemy as the imperialist-backed white minority that controlled the land, the mines, the banks. Modern xenophobic groups target a completely different entity: the African migrant street trader, the Zimbabwean waiter, the Malawian domestic worker, the Somali shopkeeper. This is a categorical substitution. The radical demand for land restitution from white farmers is replaced by the reactionary demand to deport a Mozambican selling tomato on a pavement.

· The PAC demanded an end to the settler-colonial economy. The Patriotic Alliance sits in a coalition government with the Democratic Alliance, a party that defends white property rights and agrarian capital with unwavering vigour. Operation Dudula polices township micro-economies, not the boardrooms of Sandton. These groups perform a noisy, public "defense of black South Africans" that consists entirely of attacking the poorest and most vulnerable black Africans, while leaving the structure of white land ownership and mineral extraction completely untouched. This is not Sobukwe's program; it is its dark parody.

3. How This Fraudulent Impersonation Functions as Collaboration.

By impersonating the language of the PAC while attacking the wrong target, these groups perform a triple service for white monopoly capital.

a) Deflecting the Land Question

The most explosive demand in South Africa today is land expropriation without compensation. Every year without meaningful land redistribution deepens the crisis. If the mobilizing energy of unemployed, desperate black youth could be directed toward occupying white-owned land, demanding the seizure of absentee landlords' farms, or blocking highways leading to mining operations, it would constitute a genuine threat. Xenophobic groups channel that exact energy into raiding shops in Soweto or chasing migrants out of Diepsloot. The white landowner sleeps peacefully because the revolution has been tricked into fighting a Zimbabwean hairstylist instead.

b) Protecting the Settler-Colonial Division of Labour

The apartheid economy relied on a bifurcated working class: a South African black labour force subjected to pass laws and Bantustans, and a separate stream of migrant labour from neighbouring countries, rendered even more vulnerable and exploitable. This was a deliberate colonial strategy to prevent worker unity. Modern xenophobic groups reinforce this divide with nationalist fervor. By violently policing the boundary between "South African worker" and "foreign worker," they prevent the formation of a united, class-conscious proletariat that could confront the white capitalist class. They do the state's old work of divide-and-rule, now dressed in the borrowed robes of Pan-Africanism.

c) Providing Moral Cover for the White Establishment.

When the Patriotic Alliance, with its explicitly anti-immigrant platform, joins a government led in part by the DA, the political message is: “Look, we have a black party that fights for black South Africans, and it is perfectly happy working with white capital.” The DA can point to this alliance as proof it is not an anti-black party, while the PA’s “radicalism” is exhausted on deporting foreigners, not on expropriating farms. The arrangement is a masterclass in co-optation. It creates a political spectacle of "black radicalism" that is structurally harmless to white wealth, because its targets are African migrants, not white landowners or corporate monopolies.

4. The True PAC Vision vs. The Nativist Counterfeit

To make the contrast explicit:

· PAC: Africa for the Africans. The land must be returned to the African people. Settlers who abandon their colonial privilege and submit to African rule are welcome as guests. The primary contradiction is between the dispossessed African nation and the settler-colonial state backed by imperialism.

· Modern Xenophobic Groups: South Africa for South African citizens. The primary contradiction is between South African nationals and other African migrants. The land, the mines, the banks remain securely in white hands. The "African" being called for in "Africa for the Africans" has been narrowed from a continental community of the colonized to a passport-holding national. This is not Pan-Africanism; it is a Bantustanised nationalism that the apartheid state would have applauded.

5. Conclusion: The Deeper Collaboration.

By exposing the collaborators, we have sharpened the definition of collaboration. It is not merely that these groups fail to challenge white monopoly wealth. It is that they steal the moral vocabulary of the anti-settler-colonial struggle and weaponize it against the most vulnerable members of the colonized continent, thereby creating a permanent diversion that shields the settler-colonial economic structure from any genuine challenge. This is a more profound betrayal than the old Bantustan collaboration, because it operates under the camouflage of radicalism. The true Pan-Africanist position—whether grounded in the PAC's Africanism or in a class-conscious reinterpretation of the Freedom Charter that insists on land restitution—demands an end to the colonial land tenure system and a continental solidarity of the dispossessed. By replacing the white landlord with the immigrant as the object of righteous anger, these xenophobic groups are not continuing the PAC's anti-settler-colonialism; they are its gravediggers, and they do this work on behalf of the same white monopoly capital that the PAC sought to dismantle!

MMG FOUNDATION MARCUS GARVEY DAY GALA 2026.

THE MMG FOUNDATION IS DELIGHTED TO CONFIRM THAT ITS ANNUAL MARCUS GARVEY DAY CELEBRATION WILL BE HELD AT THE DR KWAME NKRUMAH MEMORIAL PARK IN ACCRA ON SATURDAY 22 AUGUST 2026. PLEASE SAVE THE DATE. MORE DETAILS WILL BE PUBLISHED SHORTLY.

THE RT. EXCELLENT MARCUS MOSIAH GARVEY.
(17 AUGUST 1887 - 10 JUNE 1940)

“ If death has power, then count on me to be the real Marcus Garvey I would like to be!

If I may come in an earthquake or a plague or a pestilence, or if God would help me, then be assured that I shall NEVER desert you and make your enemies triumph over you!

Will I not go to hell a million times for you?

If I should die in Atlanta, my work will only just then begin. For I shall live in the physical or the spiritual to see the day of Africa's Glory.

When I am dead, wrap the mantle of the red, the black and the green around me, for in the new life I shall RISE UP with God's grace and blessings to lead the millions of the heights in the triumph, that you well know!

Look for me in a whirlwind or a storm! Look for me all around you! For with God's grace, I shall come back with countless millions of Black men and women who have died in America, those who have died in the West Indies, and those who have died in Africa, to aid you in the fight for liberty, freedom and life!”

THE GHANA CARIBBEAN ASSOCIATION.

MMG FOUNDATION PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR 2026.

The MMG Foundation Personality of the Year is a feature where every year we choose an individual who influenced or was influenced by Marcus Garvey.

In previous years we have featured personalities such as Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Menelik II, Booker T Washington, Amy Jacques Garvey, Malcolm X, Amy Ashwood Garvey and Edward Wilmot Blyden. The featured personality of last year was Captain Ibrahim Traore.

The featured personality for 2026 will be Louise Helen Norton Little ( 1897 – December 18, 1989) She was a Grenadian-born African-American Garveyite. She was the mother of Malcolm X.

Over the next few months we will have a number of features on the life of Louise Little. This will culminate in August 2026 at the MMGF Marcus Garvey Day Celebration with the unveiling of a painting featuring Louise Little and Marcus Garvey Together.

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