Thousands of people still have no access to basic health-care, and their nutritional needs go unmet. In an age when we should all be computer literate, many don t even have electricity. There is an army of human resources, but they have no skills. Criminality and substance abuse are becoming more and more attractive to our youth as an alternative to the void which sits where their future should be. For genuine liberation to reach ordinary people, change must be able to be effected from the bottom.
Transformation is a community project.
It begins in the heart of one and spreads among our neighbours through a tide of goodwill. It is for this reason that the IFP has worked hard at the level of national government, first in the Government of National Unity and then through the coalition government, while maintaining its focus in the communities at grassroots level. Those gathered here today know the IFP because the IFP has always been here. We have been here for 25 years. We have been here through the liberation struggle.