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"Growing up, the sight of my mother in her maid uniform is a memory that has always stayed with me, a poignant reminder of the intersection of race, gender and class exploitation that defines the lives of so many black women in SA"
"Under apartheid, this exploitation was magnified to a grotesque degree. Apartheid policies entrenched their subjugation, ensuring their labour was extracted under conditions of extreme racial and economic disparity"
"Then in 2024, Zuma decided to form MKP, and because he is based in KZN he got support in KZN. We have declined by five seats, which was the decline of the EFF in KZN because of the newly-formed MKP"
"We wanted to find out whether we should form an NGO or civil organisation to participate in the country’s politics, and then we agreed that we should form a political party called Economic Freedom in Our Lifetime, which ultimately became Economic Freedom Fighters"
"But we were so happy with the outcome of the 2014 elections because we got 25 seats – a four-month baby got 1.1 million votes"
"If people did not vote for us on that basis, why did these parties not win the elections?"
"“We are expecting the commander-in-chief to talk about corruption, unemployment especially from the youth and education in South Africa is still not free"
"My goal is to fight as per the 7 Cardinal pillars of EFF and achieve it."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.