Izwe Lethu, Comrades Compliments of new season,
I am excited to be alive in 2011. Another opportunity is presented to us to advance the Africanist Revolution. We have been delay by *"me,me, me" factor*. If, it was not initiated by *me* then it counter-revolutionary. If it was not started by me then it is not important. I hope that will change. The revolution can only succeed when we appreciate diversity in our talents. Contrary to long held view not every PAC members is an organizer. We are not all leaders as well. There very good organizers while others are propagandists, communicators, strategist, tacticians administrators, comforters, groomers, fundraisers, leaders, ideologies and so on. Everyone must work on their strength and complimenting each other in our revolutionary work. I must indicate that I am disappointed with growth of numbers in Google group (Yahoo Group successor) and PAYCO Facebook group. In 2004, I was happy with 300 group we achieved considering internet penetration and number PAC members with emails . There was a lot printing of email and discussion of those email in branches. In 2011, we are still less than 400 members while almost every member of community has email (thanks to mobile phones), which is extremely disappointing. The Google group was targeting internal communication. It was conscious decision from the beginning to allow everyone to join. We put email addresses of those we normal agree with and those that we normal disagree with. This was to put PAC into permanent conference, increase debate and improve common understanding. It was to give PAC member enough time to talk to each instead of talking about each other. There is good information for members in this forum including comments I do not like. We should have been over 10 000 group members who are Africanists. This was to crush information feudalism in party - some structure are controlled by individuals through giving information selectively. PAYCO website, Facebook and Mayihlome News (WordPress blog) are external communication tools target members of public (various stakeholders). Facebook group was well accepted in Western Cape but rest of country has limited penetration. Why? Inland comrades did not invite their friends. I expected PASMA comrades to bring member whose relationship with PAC is marginal and limited in knowing PASMA on campus. Mayihlome News is successful in Europe and America. Highly appreciated there with over 100 new readers a week (consistently) and 200 return readers. The numbers at home although 62% of readers do not growing to size of PAC. It show that comrades are not reading and marketing blog and assist in give people outside the PAC access to Africanist perspective. PAYCO has create valuable communication infrastructure. We have not fully exploited this infrastructure. My request is simple. Let us get more members of PAC to join the groups. It is duty of every member of PAC. Assist PAYCO to market Africanist perspective to your associates in various communities. Greater numbers of conscious and consistent contributors (especial former AZANYU leaders). Sbu -- Sending your posting to [email protected] Unsubscribe by sending an email to [email protected] You can also visit http://groups.google.com/group/payco Visit our website at www.mayihlome.wordpress.com
