"i--essential outfits isitayela: indlela yokugqoka ijacket ye--denim ngomzwa omusha. -- loveofqueen to be sure we have suffered persecution -- it was the communist party that was the very first party to banned by the apartheid regime (10 years before the banning of the anc and pac).and we have a long list of martyrs, including cde johannes nkosi in the 1930s, all the way down to ahmed timol in the 1970s, matthew goniwe in the 1980s, and chris hani in the early 1990s (to mention just a few). the party has certainly earned the respect of a wide range of south africans, especially the workers and the poor, because our cadres have been prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice. and while we have every right to be proud of our martyrs, the fact that we have suffered persecution does not create any entitlements for us in the present. we have to earn our vanguard role on a daily basis in struggle and through the clarity of our analyses and programmatic lines of march.