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On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Jaki Seroke <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. Dr. Pheko, every time when I talk to him, as a person with > a passion for African History, would ask me about African writers most of > whom I have never heard about. > > > kind regards > Mduduzi Sibeko > Admin/finance > cid:[email protected] > T +27-11-724-9281 > C +27-71-101-2595 > F +27-11-900-1929 > F 086-754-2176 > E [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > www.randwater.co.za <http://www.randwater.co.za> <http://www.randwater.co.za> > > This email and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential and > proprietary information. This information is private and protected by law > and, accordingly, if you are not the intended recipient, you are requested to > delete this entire communication immediately and are notified that any > disclosure, copying or distribution of or taking any action based on this > information is prohibited. > > Emails cannot be guaranteed to be secure or free of errors or viruses. 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