On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:15 PM, khuliso emmanuel <khuliso...@yahoo.com>wrote:
> I agree with Mo-Africa Pitso Mphasha. First President of PACYL > > > > Vhahashu Ma-afrika, homosexuality and lesbianism should be rejected and > condemned as they are regarded as totally unacceptable to cultural norms and > values of African society," those who wants to be Africans, they should > refrain from evil deeds. If PAYCO comrades want to align themselves with the > constitution of these chaterists, they should do so. But PAC Youth League is > saying "gay rights are immoral. It's right in the bible" and anybody who > will be against the PAC Youth League voice will lebelled sellout. > > I remain noble son > Khuliso > > --- On *Thu, 1/28/10, Thembeka Majali <thembeka.maj...@gmail.com>* wrote: > > > From: Thembeka Majali <thembeka.maj...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [PAYCO] > To: payco@googlegroups.com > Date: Thursday, January 28, 2010, 11:35 AM > > > Or maybe ask why did we have Azanian Peoples Revolutionary Party a > breakaway group from PAC in exile? > > > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Thembeka Majali < > thembeka.maj...@gmail.com<http://us.mc526.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=thembeka.maj...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> M'afrika what you are asking could be a similar question to why do we have >> some faction calling themselves Youth League or Women's League. Is it about >> branding or moving with fashion times? >> >> PAYCO I hope you could issue a statement to the Human Rights >> Commission, dismiss those charges against you and publicly distance >> yourselves from the League's confussion. >> >> Read todays SOWETAN. >> >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Mothibe, Lucas >> <mothib...@doe.gov.za<http://us.mc526.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=mothib...@doe.gov.za> >> > wrote: >> >>> Izwe lethu >>> >>> >>> >>> Maafrica I need clarity in the following: >>> >> >> >> Are we Comrades or Africanist ? >> >> >> > Comrade is the term that was used by soviets (Marxists and Leninists) when > greeting each other during those days. > > > > Are we socialist or communist ? > > > > Are we for a National Democratic Revolution(NDR) or African Nationalism? > > > > If NDR ,what is the difference between us and SACP. > > > > > > Regards > > Lucas Mothibe > > > > *From:* > payco@googlegroups.com<http://us.mc526.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=pa...@googlegroups.com>[mailto: > payco@googlegroups.com<http://us.mc526.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=pa...@googlegroups.com>] > *On Behalf Of *Mawande Jack > *Sent:* 19 January 2010 05:24 PM > *To:* > payco@googlegroups.com<http://us.mc526.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=pa...@googlegroups.com>; > PAYCO Azania > *Subject:* [PAYCO] > > > > > > Haiti-A Call For Global Action > > by Randall Robinson > January 07, 2004 > > *Part I* January 1, 1804 – January 1, 2004: > > This day is sacred. > > It is the 200th anniversary of the Haitian Revolution. > > Fought by Haitians. > > Won for us all. > > Between 1791 and 1804, hundreds of thousands of Africans enslaved in Haiti > ignored the rivers, forests, precipices, swamps, mountains, gorges, > bloodhounds, rifles, cannon, and whips that separated them and united to > launch a massive, brilliantly executed, spectacular war of liberation that > the armies of Spain, England, and France (with the help of the United > States) all fought desperately – and failed absolutely – to crush. > > The Haitian Revolution was no "lucky break" involving "a few unruly > slaves." > > This was no "plantation uprising." > > St. Domingue (as Haiti was then called by the French) was at that time the > most prosperous colonial possession of any European power. It created far > greater wealth for France than the thirteen American colonies combined. Its > massive wealth-generating capacity caused it to be known far and wide as > "The Pearl of the Antilles" and its French owners had a clear and proven > management strategy for profit maximization: push the slaves to their > absolute physical limit, work them literally to death, and then quickly > import replacement slaves from Africa who would, in turn, be worked to > death. This, St. Domingue's plantocracy had discovered, controlled operating > costs, kept the pace of economic activity at a highly efficient and > productive pace, minimized slack and wastage, and produced massive, > stupendous profits. > > Two hundred years ago today, however, after a 13-year war of liberation, > the slaves of St. Domingue celebrated their victory over France and other > European powers by establishing the Republic of Haiti. They had wrested from > Napoleon the engine of France's economic expansion, banished slavery from > the land, and ended European domination of 10,000 square miles of fertile > land and hundreds of thousands of slaves to work it. > > They had shattered the myth of European invincibility. > > "Most have assumed that (Haiti's) slaves had no military experience prior > to the revolution," John K. Thornton explains in African Soldiers in the > Haitian Revolution. "Many assume that they rose from agricultural labour to > military prowess in an amazingly short time.... However, it is probably a > mistake to see the slaves of St. Domingue as simply agricultural workers, > like the peasants of Europe... ...A majority of St. Domingue's slaves, > especially those who fought steadily in the revolution, were born in > Africa... ...In fact, a great many... ...had served in African armies prior > to their enslavement and arrival in Haiti... ...Sixty to seventy per cent of > the adult slaves listed on (St. Domingue's) inventories in the late 1780's > and 1790's were African born... ... ...(coming) overwhelmingly from just two > areas of Africa: the Lower Guinea coast region of modern Benin, Togo and > Nigeria (also known as the "Slave Coast"), and the Angola coast area.... > > "Where the African military background of the slaves counted most was in > those areas, especially in the north (of St. Domingue), where slaves > themselves led the revolution, both politically and militarily... ... > ...These areas...threw up the powerful armies of Toussaint Louverture and > Dessalines and eventually carried the revolution." > > A successful revolution in Haiti, Thornton explains, "required the kind of > skill and discipline that could be found in veteran soldiers, and it was > these veterans, from wars in Africa, who made up the general will of the St. > Domingue revolt... ...Kongolese armies contributed the most to St. Domingue > rebel bands... ...(Their) tactical organization was very different from that > of Europe... ...(and they) had learned to deal successfully with Portuguese > armies and tactics in the years of struggle (in Africa), driving out > invaders... ...No doubt these tactics could help those who found themselves > in St. Domingue on the eve of the revolution. > > "Kongolese armies seem to have been organized in...platoons...that struck > at enemy advancing columns and sustained an engagement for a time before > breaking off and retreating... ...They made use of cover, both from terrain > and from woods and tall grass, in hiding their movements and directing their > fire. When they fled it was not possible to follow them." Portuguese troops > who had fought the Kongolese in Africa also reported that the Kongolese used > "shocks – larger engagements involving massed Kongolese units. According to > the Portuguese accounts, large bodies were assembled for shocks supported by > artillery, sometimes they formed in extensive half moon formations which > apparently sought partial envelopment of opposing forces, in other cases in > columns of great depth along fronts of 15-20 soldiers.... > > "Their tactics showed a penchant for skirmishing attacks rather than the > heavy assaults favoured by Europeans in the same era... ...Kongolese armies > had a higher command structure that could mass troops quickly, and soldiers > were also accustomed to forming effectively into larger units for major > battles when the situation warranted.... ...Dahomey's armies included a > fairly large professional force... ...Oyo relied heavily on cavalry forces, > had relatively few foot soldiers and throughout the 1700's was the > pre-eminent...military power in (west Africa)... ...Dahomey's troops... > ...fought in close order using fire discipline quite similar to that of > Europe... ... > > "It was from these disparate 'arts of war' that the revolutionary African > soldier of St. Domingue was trained... ... > > "One can easily see, in the formation of the bands mentioned in the early > descriptions of the (Haitian Revolution), the small platoons of the > Kongolese armies, each under an independent commander and accustomed to > considerable tactical decision making; or perhaps those small units > characteristic of locally organized Dahomean units; the state armies of the > Mahi country; or the coastal forces of the Slave Coast... ... > > "In addition the pattern of attacks with small scale harassing maneuvers, > short, sustained battles and then rapid withdrawals are also reminiscent of > the campaign diaries of the Portuguese field commanders in Angola. Felix > Carteau, an early observer of the war in the north of St. Domingue noted > that the (slave revolutionaries) harassed French forces day and night. > Usually, he commented, they were repelled, but each time, they dispersed so > quickly, so completely in ditches, hedges and other areas of natural cover > that real pursuit was impossible. However, rebel casualties were light in > these attacks, so that the next day they reappeared with great numbers of > people. They never mass in the open, wrote another witness, or wait in line > to charge, but advance dispersed, so that they appear to be six times as > numerous as they really are. Yet they were disciplined, since they might > advance with great clamor and then suddenly and simultaneously fall > silent.... > > "It was not long before observers noted that the rebels (in St. Domingue) > had developed the sort of higher order tactics that was also characteristic > of Kongolese forces, or those of the Slave Coast.... > > "In addition to these tactical similarities to African wars, especially in > Kongo, there were other indications of the African ethos of the fighters... > ...they marched, formed and attacked accompanied by the 'music peculiar to > Negroes....' Their religious preparation, likewise, hearkened back to > Africa.... > > "It is unlikely that many slaves would have learned equestrian skills as a > part of their plantation labor... ...Since there was virtually no cavalry in > Angola, one can speculate that rebels originating from Oyo might have > provided at least some of the trained horsemen. Also, the Senegalese, though > a minority, also came from an equestrian culture... ... > > "African soldiers may well have provided the key element of the early > success of the revolution. They might have enabled its survival when it was > threatened by reinforced armies from Europe. Looking at the rebel slaves of > Haiti as African veterans rather than as Haitian plantation workers may well > prove to be the key that unlocks the mystery of the success of the largest > slave revolt in history." > > St. Domingue's policy of working its slaves to death and then quickly > importing replacements from Africa proved to be the ultimate karmic > boomerang. St. Domingue's African-born slaves not only were not yet broken > psychologically, but they were also in possession of significant military > training and experience gained on the other side of the Atlantic. And they > combined with brilliant, indefatigable, St. Domingue-born blacks like > Toussaint L'Ouverture and Dessalines to create a black revolutionary > juggernaut the likes of which Europe and the United States had not seen > before – or since. > > The blacks of St. Domingue forced the world to see both them and the > millions of other Africans enslaved throughout the Americas with new eyes. > No longer could it be assumed that they could forever be brutalized into > creating massive fortunes and building sprawling empires for the glory of > Europe and America. > > On January 1, 1804, hundreds of thousands of slave revolutionaries > established an independent republic and named it Haiti in honor of the > Amerindian people, long since killed off by European brutality and diseases, > who had called the land Ayiti – Land of Many Mountains. They had banished > slavery from their land and proclaimed it an official refuge for escaped > slaves from anywhere in the world. They had defeated the mightiest of the > mighty. They had shattered the myth of European invincibility. > > Europe was livid. America, apoplectic. The blacks in St. Domingue had > forgotten their place and would be made to pay. Dearly. For the next two > hundred years. > > Toussaint L'Ouverture, Dessalines, and their slave revolutionaries must > forever live in our hearts as inspiring, authentic counterweights to the > "yassuh-nosuh-scratch- where-ah-don'-itch-and-dance-tho-there-ain'-no-music" > image of our forebears that Europe and the United States have drilled into > our psyches. > > And we must remember that history forgets, first, those who forget > themselves. Via means direct and indirect, crass and subtle, there have been > whispers and street corner shouts that "current conditions in Haiti" make > our celebration of the Haitian Revolution "inappropriate" at this time. > > We, whose souls and psyches have been bleached of everything prior to the > Middle Passage are now being told that we must tear from our consciousness > and rip from our hearts the most dramatic and triumphal assertion of > forebears' dignity, worth, and perspicacity since the Middle Passage. > > How diabolically contemptuous. > > Not only must we not forget the Haitian Revolution, we must celebrate it. > Today, through all of this its bicentennial year, and beyond. > > And we must research, understand, and expose what happened to Haiti and in > Haiti since the revolution. We must become fully conversant with the role of > "the world's leading democracies" in Haiti between 1804 and today. We must > develop a keen understanding of the repercussions of the 61-year economic > embargo that the United States imposed on Haiti in response to its > declaration of independence, and we must recognize the current-day > consequences of France forcing Haiti to pay 90 million in gold francs > (equivalent today to some $20 billion) in 1825 as "compensation" for Haiti > declaring its independence – or be crushed militarily by France. > > Today, "the world's leading democracies" cluck and gloat at their ongoing > stranglehold – in the form of a crushing financial embargo – on today's > descendants of Toussaint, Dessalines, and their freedom fighters. Throughout > the Americas, we who benefited from the daring war waged by the slaves of > St. Domingue, must reject the maneuverings of the world's most powerful > nations in Haiti and find ways to build bridges to the Haitian people and > the officials they choose – through the ballot – to lead them. > > Just over two hundred years ago, after there had been a "cessation of > hostilities" and the brilliant military strategist Toussaint L'Ouverture had > already retired to a quiet life in the St. Domingue country-side, France > decided, nonetheless, to arrest and ship him to a prison cell 3,000 feet up > the Jura Mountains of France where he would freeze to death. As he stepped > on board the boat that would forever take him away from St. Domingue, > Toussaint issued a promise to his captors and a call to us all. > > "In overthrowing me, you have cut down in St. Domingue only the trunk of > the tree of liberty. It will spring up again by the roots for they are > numerous and deep." > > We are those roots. > > The revolution was fought by Haitians, but won for us all. > > Through our work and with our resources, in a spirit of self-respect and > self-awareness, we must serve as counterweights to the powerful nations who > deem the ballot box sacrosanct in their countries, but surreptitiously > encourage and manipulate its rejection by "the opposition" in Haiti. We must > serve as proponents of political civility and social justice in Haiti while > "the world's leading democracies" slyly encourage recalcitrance, tumult, and > division. We must reject being manipulated by the corporate media into > embracing the notion that in France, Germany, the United States and other > "civilized nations" elections are the only legitimate determinant of the > will of the people, but in Haiti those street demonstrations specially > selected by the corporate media for coverage tell us all we need to know > about anybody's will. We must impress upon all Haitians the fact that the > outside world does not distinguish between – and cares nothing about – > Lavalas, Convergence, or any other political grouping. The world sees only > "Haiti," "Haitians," and all the connotations that western media have > attached thereto. Those nations that two hundred years ago failed > desperately in their attempts to crush the Haitian Revolution today have a > deep psychic need to "prove" Toussaint's progeny capable of nothing but > disaster. We must reach out to and work with our Haitian brothers and > sisters to prove these nations wrong. > > Throughout the Diaspora, we must stand with and defend Haiti – on this the > anniversary of the Haitian Revolution, throughout this bicentennial year, > and for all time. 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