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In this glorious centenary year of the united ANC, in which we celebrate 100 years of struggle, sacrifice, unbending devotion to duty beyond the call of leadership, inter alia and so forth, we also come to the landmark 53rd leadership conference of the historic party of the liberation of the masses of South Africa.
[Applause]
Our people from all over the beloved country have gathered at the gloriously historic site of Mangaung, where the historic movement of our people was founded a full 100 years ago, in a manger. Our people will gather there, in their four thousands, with their hearts held high in the air and their lips pressed against the rigid glass ceiling of class mobility. They will wave small flags, which the party will provide according to specific tender regulations, as the leadership, the embodiment of their hopes and dreams, glides by in luxury German cars as provided for in the ministerial handbook of the Republic of South Africa (under revision since 2009).
[Muted applause]
It is for this reason that we must approach this historic landmark conference with a great deal of unstinting analytic rigour and vigour. For it can never be that the historic ANC can be held to have spent its time, and we are speaking now of 100 years, making convoluted arguments about matters of interest only to the ghosts of the Lenin Institute while at the same time marginalising the intellectual giants presently at the heart of our analysis of the objective conditions endemic to a society struggling to achieve the historic goals of our movement.
[Smattering of applause, coughs]
And, so to the issues at hand. Comrades, colleagues, veterans, friends, allies: what we as a party and a liberation movement suggest as a way forward is this. We must –
[Sounds of trestle table being moved into place]
Thank you, Catering Comrades, but please do not set up the buffet table just yet, we are only just starting to –
[Sounds of chairs being pushed back]
Comrades, no, please, it is not yet time to head for the snacks. Please, comrades, we must strive to discipline those gastric tendencies which might distract us from the task at hand. We need to –
[Sound of a scuffle]
Please! Comrades! Stop! There are plenty of sausage rolls for everyone! Comrade in the back, please, just take one! No, I see you taking four, you have put them there in your revolutionary Tupperware. Comrades! Comrades!
[Sound of tables collapsing and muffled screams. End of transcript.]