I am from Eastern Cape province, South Africa, born in a small city.
In 2004 my parents sent me to Port Elizabeth to get a better education. I went to different colleges to get skills to get a good-paying job.
A comrade introduced communist ideas to me in 2016. He invited me to a meeting in Port Elizabeth. Comrades from another country were also present. I did not say much in this meeting because the communist ideas were new to me.
I attended some of the meetings with the collective here in KwaNoxolo. In most cases I disagreed with communist ideas, I felt that communism was not feasible, and it was a threat to my culture and tradition. I stopped attending the meetings for quite some time.
Comrades would sometimes invite me to attend a communist school and meeting though they knew that I was not a communist.
The more I attended these selective/random meetings and communist classes, the more I opened up to the communist ideas.
I can remember the last communist school which comrade E forced me to attend. It was the most constructive, educational, productive and mind-opening communist class I have ever attended. I learned about Science and philosophy and why it is important as a communist to study these attractive subjects. I learned about change and how things change.
I was motivated and impressed by the knowledge I obtained at this communist class. Since then I have been attending meetings every Saturday. I also participated in setting up these meetings and I assisted comrades in camp preparation last weekend where 15 comrades participated.
Day by day, study after study of dialectics, Red Flag and Karl Marx’s work and examining the capitalist society status quo, I am becoming more confident in the success of communism.
Comrade K
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