EFF beret restores black pride

I live in Cape Town and not since the red berets started popping around the city have I seen the black man walk so tall in this terrifying tower of white privilege, which is this city.

So sure of himself is the fighter that he does nothing but inspire confidence to those, like myself, who sit at the stands of the unfolding political drama that is evident as we trudge along, past the fifth democratic elections.

It isn’t only the rubbishing of pro-poor slogans by the fat cats in the ruling party that aroused my interest in the red machine. It is neither its own pro-poor slogans nor its ironic stand against corruption given that its commander in chief is embroiled in a corruption case as I write this that piqued my curiosity. Rather, it is making visible the most obvious, the woes of the most vulnerable in our free society, the poor black masses, the women, and the workers, and doing so in such an unapologetic fashion and alarming confidence. 

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