Greetings Comrades
Thanks Mashao for your Youthful yet politically astute thoughts on party
deliberation and many thanks to you Comrade Ngcukana for your brutal
response. To both my senior comrades here is food for thought...
“We had all been in the rain together until yesterday. Then a handful of
us, the lucky and hardly ever the best had scrambled for the one shelter
of our former rulers and had taken it over and barricaded ourselves in.
And from within, we sought to persuade the rest through numerous
loudspeakers that the first phase of the struggle has been won and that
the next phase- the extension of our house was even more important and
called for new and original tactics. It requires that all arguments should
cease and the whole people speak with one voice and that any more dissent
and argument outside the door of the shelter would subvert and break down
the whole house” (Khoza, 1997, p.45).
Comrades I find no fitting narration to describe the manner in which the
PAC old guard always responds to its Youth, than the quotation above. It
metaphorically speaks to issues raised by Comrade Mashao and the manner in
which Comrade Cunningham has chosen to respond too. For example, it paints
a picture of those in whom we the Youth, have one way or the other, put
our trust in (with good reasons and intentions), having not only
barricaded themselves in the one shelter (in this case...Parliament) but
have beyond our beliefs come to see themselves as the smart, lucky, and
knowledgeable than the rest. The passage also makes mention of numerous
loudspeakers (like money, contacts, sacrifices, seniority, party
credentials to mention but a few) used not to enlighten, but to persuade
the rest and to serve as means to silence all manner of deliberations. And
finally it ends with a telling that any form of deliberation has the
potential to destabilize the house... (Which house comrades...Parliament
or PAC?).
Bytheway, how can deliberation subvert party building? This is my anxiety
with Comrade Ngcukana’s disguise response.
Lasty, Khrumah once said “Man greatest possession is life and since it is
given to him but once. He must so live not to be smeared by his cowardly
existence and trivial past. He must so live that when dying he might say,
all my life was given to the finest cause on earth. The liberation of
mankind".
Our life in PAC is given to us but once, hence when we debate we should
also reflect on such a noble cause.
Comrade Cunningham its time you engage with the Youth of the party you
once sacrificed all to build!
Regards
Kenny Bafo
Lecturer
Economic and Management Sciences Faculty
Second Floor, Room 209
University of the Western Cape
Bellville
Tell: 021 959 3240
073 4984 144
E-mail: kbafo @uwc.ac.za
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