Bafowethu We must begin to uphold the valiant deeds and bravery of our comrades in APLA, and openly record their creative fighting methods which stung the enemy effectively. I was scribe for PAC delegates in the '92 /93 talks with senior SAP officers, led by police minister Kriel, in which they admitted to the superior skills APLA guerrillas used in combat. Figures such as Ncapayi were mentioned, and must therefore not be forgotten.
Tom Lodge admits to erroneous reviews of PAC inputs in his earlier research work, but does not cite examples. It is dishonest to make sweeping generalisations of past mistakes without specifics. This is just meant to gain confidence of readers. However, I'm impressed with his coverage of PAC's direct operations before Sharpeville imploded. Most of the uninformed talking heads on tv, pretending to be political analysts, will have an authoritative reference with this new title. We of the PAC are being deliberately sidelined in debates in the public media space. The ANC and their chosen propagandists makes the mass media to behave like Pravda, which lied every day until the Soviet empire crumbled. I know how bias and propaganda works: repeat negative publicity until it is believed to belong exclusively to the PAC, and shine the marbles of the worst among them so that those who are best are discouraged from open association with this revolutionary movement. This is Goebbel's methodology. Eg: A well researched book on the life of Thami Mnyele "Art + Revolution", an artist killed in Gaborone during the SADF raid in 1985, deliberately avoids detailing my personal influence in the dramatic change that led to Mnyele joining the revolution. They never talked to me (his bosom pal) during research even though his fleeing SA in 1978 was after confiding to me. You see, he joined the ANC and I was then known to be a PAC underground operative. We were very close friends and they'd rather not bring PAC influence on one of their own in a book that may be a prescribed textbook for Art History 101. Let's rather record the details of major feats conducted by our own comrades, and tell their stories honestly without mangamanga. Otherwise the coming generations will call us spineless cowards and shameless traitors. Open palm salute. Jaki Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -----Original Message----- From: Sebenzile Mlaza <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:56:45 To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [PAYCO] Revolutionary greetings to all, An email hereunder by Comrade Jaki Seroke reminds me of one documentary that was televised on the 19th January 2011 between 18H00 and 20H00 sharp on channel 111 on TopTV entitled "Amandla! The role of music in the struggle against apartheid." As it is to be expected producers were more keen than anything else in reinventing the wheel, it was Hugh Masekela this, Mandela that, Merriam Makeba this, Vusi Mahlasela this or that, MK this or that etc. No mention was ever made in the likes of Letta Mbuli, Tlokwe Sehuma and Medu, Carlos Djedje, Bayethe etc. It was further reported in the same documentary, I would say in an apparent glee and in a sense with a sado-masochistic triumph that at some stage in the 1960s people were instructed by Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu to burn their (dom)passes. No reference nor mention of the role played by Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe and the PAC in orchestrating the Sharpville uprising is made, except some kaleidoscopic pictures albeit in passing of a few bystanders with an open palm salute. However, same is not being accounted for by narrators in the programme. Viewers will have to be excused for believing that the PAC was nowhere to be seen in the 1960s, as in fact, there was no actual visuals of PAC activism in the year in question in the same documentary. It is becoming abundantly clear that the South African media and of course some nasty and racist academics in the likes of Tom Lodge and others are giving the PAC a raw deal for one reason or the other. Azania needs an impartial media, not a party political driven media and academia. In journo-political circles this is what is called journalistic gerrymandering, whether its first autocracy before democracy, that issue irrelevant in our case we simple deserve an impartial media, we surely are a mature democracy by now. ps: To Cde Jaki Seroke - keep up the good work and always keep putting party line across, you remind me of the late Themba Mpinzimpinzi Ncapayi who was ambushed by the racist settler forces in Durban, Natal in 1992. Izwe Lethu i-Afrika Sebenzile Mlaza -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jaki Seroke Sent: 13 June 2011 10:42 To: Mduduzi Sibeko ; [email protected] Subject: Re: [PAYCO] Noble sons I'm obsessed with the interpretation of the PAC's historical role in the transformation and change programme for Azania. PAC's purpose is for me what matters most, and if we all do not find common ground in the long term vision and the immediate objectives of the Party, we'll continue to drift aimlessly. I agree with studies of other liberation struggles, including Palestine, south America and others. This will broaden our horizons. I bought Tom Lodge's "SHARPEVILLE - an apartheid massacre and its consequences" published by Oxford University Press in 2011. It's well written structurally and pins SA's change on the culmination of the 21 March 1960 events. But it does not portray the Positive Action Campaign the same as it would have been explained by Nyathi Pokela, or even the 1976 to 1994 PAC resilience the way it really was. It irks me that Lodge, who interviewed APLA cadres (in detention in the eighties) and observed the swoop on Party structures countrywide on 25 May 1993 (ahead of the Transitional Executive Authority) and the subsequent decline as a result of enemy infiltration and sabotage, fails to put these significant acts into context. In fact he ignores them completely. I still question his academic objectivity. We should therefore write and discuss world events and phenomena, in the context of revolutionary Pan Africanism and its threats and challenges. Lefatshe la rona ke Africa Jaki Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -----Original Message----- From: Mduduzi Sibeko <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:45:39 To: <[email protected]> Subject: [PAYCO] Cde Seroke ,Hlongwane When I have time, I wish to write a narrative about how the State of Israel was established, also with the ensuring conflict with the Arabs States including liberation movements such as PLO and others. remember, we have been in fraternal relationship with the PLO in the 80's and early 90's. the position of international law in recognizing Palestine as a sovereign state. May I appeal again within our entire comradeship to make use of books and read extensively. 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