Ntuli says knowledge is power, reminds people to read 300 books per year

African National Congress provincial secretary Mdumseni Ntuli urged party members to equip themselves with knowledge if they wanted to lead a successful revolution.

He said there was no revolution that would be lead by people who did not read. If members did not want to read, their revolution would fail, Ntuli said at the Oliver Tambo Memorial lecture at the KwaDukuza town hall on Thursday night.

“We will not be able to turn things around unless we know and we will get to know if we learn to read. I once spoke to our President Cyril Ramaphosa, who was deputy president at that time. He told me that we must read at least 300 books a year! That proves why leaders like Tambo were excellent, because they equipped themselves with knowledge. They were reading books and that is how they gained the knowledge they had,” said Ntuli.

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Ntuli outlined the power of the knowledge and said that those who lack knowledge end up falling for the politics of survival and relevance, which he said is one of the most dangerous things to do.

“Someone who does politics of survival ends up opposing the right things, just to survive and remain relevant. Now those are the people who I believe are dangerous to our movement.”

He also spoke about the list of seven social sins that was published by Mahatma Gandhi in his weekly newspaper Young India: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity and worship without sacrifice.

“We are all guilty of one of these sins, so go home and think which one you are guilty of and how you are going to get out of that sin.”

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