Our movement stands shoulder to shoulder with activists across this country in condemning the brutal, calculated assassination of Comrade Mokoena Letsie in Potchefstroom.

Comrade Mokoena was cut down in a hail of bullets by the enemies of the poor and working class. This was an execution carried out by hired guns and cowards who saw in Comrade Mokoena a threat to the system of predatory politics tied to the system of capitalist plunder that keeps our people in chains. He was a threat to the tenderpreneurs, the extortion networks, the mafias that appropriate land to rent and sell it, the corporate bosses, and the corrupt officials who enrich themselves while our communities starve. He was also a committed internationalist who built grassroots support for Palestine.

We refuse to let his name become another statistic in a police docket gathering dust. We refuse to let his murder be washed away with empty statements and candlelight vigils. The state must investigate without delay. There can be no more delays, no more ‘we are investigating’. The people demand the names, motives, and the full network behind this assassination. The killers and those who ordered the hit must be arrested and prosecuted, whether they sit in council chambers or backrooms. They must be brought to justice.

The state must also provide immediate protection for community activists. The blood of Comrade Mokoena will be on their hands if they continue to leave us exposed while our enemies operate with impunity.

To those who pulled the trigger and those who paid for it: you can kill a comrade, but you cannot kill the demand for freedom and you cannot kill a movement. Every bullet fired at us forges more revolutionaries.

To the state: you either investigate, arrest, and bring these killers to book, or you stand exposed as complicit in the war against the poor.

As right-wing forces advance in a pincer movement from parliament and the streets we will continue to work to unite the forces of the principled and democratic left grounded in the membership based organisations of the working class and poor.

We send our deep condolences to Comrade Mokoena Letsie’s family and comrades. He will rest in the honour accorded to all true revolutionaries, all true partisans of the people.

The struggle for freedom and justice for all people everywhere continues.

Amandla!
A Luta Continua!
Justice for Comrade Mokoena Letsie!

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Land & Dignity!

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