We've just received this message from June 16th vet Seth Mazibuko and thought you'd be interested in hearing what he has to say about the stripper scandal that happened at the Johannesburg Medium B Prison on Friday, 16 June:
It is shocking and insulting that to "celebrate youth month" and ofcourse to commemorate June 16, a prison can send in half nude women to entertain prisoners or inmates!
What does this say to our youth, to our women and to June 16!
I thought women and youth structures and related government department were going to act on this immediately!...
Some of us were always loud about how June 16 is being "celebrated". I wonder how do those who "watered the tree of liberation" feel now in their graves.
It is so hurting and I am so angry and bitter!
The warders who arranged this have learnt from youth formations and some nebulious June 16 structures that have been calling youth in stadiums to a dance of half naked dancers (and we know who)
We have reduced the death, the maiming and arrest of the students of 1976 to nudity. We have reduced our women to nudists and made them lose respect of them and hence men (in prison and outside) will find it easy to kill them.
SA be ashamed of yourself!!!! Why are you quiet about this and why are you not making noise about this! I am challenging our government and particularly those dealing with women and youth issues to do something!
I am challenging youth formations and structures to do something about this! I am challenging Ministers who have been found to be related to such or similar behavior to show their apology by speaking out on this!
Seth Mazibuko: Class of 76
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Seth was the youngest leader of the Student Action Committee that led the Soweto uprising. This is the inscription on a plaque that was unveiled at his home on June 16 this year:
This site has been a base for planning different struggles against apartheid. It remained under surveillance by the Security Branch during and after June 1976. It was here that Seth Mazibuko, the youngest member of the Student Action Committee, was arrested in July 1976, aged just sixteen. He was held in solitary confinement for 11 months in Number Four at The Fort Prison, in Braamfontein. Seth was then charged, tried and sent to Robben Island for seven years where he completed his matric in English and obtained his B. Ed. degree.