mAfrika Mduduzi, Unity is determined by actions taken by an organisation. I assume but not sure that problems started in the PAC when PAC went to parliament. That was a victory for the ANC and NP.
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Mduduzi Sibeko <[email protected]>wrote: > Perhaps, we should regret our mistake of not clearing up the matter of > unconditional release of combatants before the 1994 elections. In a matter > of arrangements, be it accords or any negotiated settlements, where there > has been bloodshed or armed conflict, parties normally incorporate into the > agreement the unconditional release of belligerents. admittedly, in 1994 > everything was hastened. The sabotage that has taken place is unfortunate. > If there could be something to expedite the process, I would be very happy. > Without APLA in the 90's, the PAC would not have been known. But again, the > internal wrangles are stalling the whole thing. Who has the jurisdiction or > a capacity to agitate for their plight ? the matter of a unified PAC can > never be ignored. We like it or not. The PAC must be a united force. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Jaki Seroke > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 12:29 PM > To: Mzu Cabanga ; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PAYCO] > > Cde Mzu Cabanga > > I would caution against a knee jerk response to the circumstances of > imprisoned APLA comrades without a full appreciation of the PAC's efforts to > correct and amend their incarceration, and have all of them released. You > are also very shrill and abrasive in attacking, I assume, Africanists who > work for the ANC administration. > > Firstly, Motsoko Pheko is on record for having led a campaign to release > APLA cadres from prison after being convicted for fighting for freedom. This > has been his swan song for 17 years now. At the point when a special > parliamentary committee was formed to address a constitutional pardon to > effect their release, including those from the other parties, Letlapa > Mphahlele wrote a letter to Mbeki that Pheko should not belong to that > committee and that Mudini Maivha replace him. Maivha was not a member of > parliament and could only bark without biting, and the chair of this > committee went to a former NP leader who has stalled the process ever since. > Talk about cutting your nose to spite your face. Yebo, we must sustain the > programme to release all our comrades. The saboteurs must stay out. Full > stop. > > Secondly, we are in an environment of constitutional democracy designed to > protect settler interests with western backing. The struggle is not over > yet. This phase requires strategic positioning and sustained coordination of > our activities. PAC cadres have been sent to provide service in the state > machinery since 1994. Efforts to resuscitate the PAC are deliberately > sabotaged, and the decline of the Party has reached rock bottom. We must > appreciate all factors and analyse the objective conditions, for us to make > a serious awakening and to form a lasting alliance with the struggles of the > Azanian masses. We must vanquish our opponents with facts, so says the > evergreen PAC Basic Documents. > > There are those who fall prey to ANC tactics and unwittingly get used as > idiots. They get to tasting the nector of neo-colonialism and cannot release > their hands from the cookie jar. Structurally, observe the conduct of APC in > the SCOPA programmes and make political reviews. > > My Afrika greetings. > > Jaki > Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mzu Cabanga <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:16:24 > To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected] > > > Subject: Re: [PAYCO] > > Greetings noble sons and daughters of the soil! > > It is of utmost dissappointment to find out there are APLA members who are > still in jail for political reasons whilst we are succesful businessmen and > employees of the same whites who were the enemies of the Afrikans. > > It is a very painful feeling to be held captive in your own land by people > who do not even belong here. > > I think more than everything that is on the table i.e. conferences, > commemorations e.t.c. we owe it to the Afrikans in prison to do something > urgently about that. > > Even Sobukwe would cry tears of blood if he were around and see that we are > saying little if anything about the APLA members in jail. > > Ma-Afrika if we do not wake up now sooner or later it is going to be very > difficult for the coming generation to distinguish us from the ANC and all > this liberal organisations. > > We have Afrikans who go around embracing GEAR and becoming spokespeople of > the ANC governments and later brand themselves as revolutionary Pan > Afrikanists (Cunningham Ngcukana). > > This is a mockery to PAC of Azania and Pan Afrikanism at large. > > I mean what happened to the PAC that was active and less vocal? What > happened to the PAC that led the march in 1960 where black people were > massacred by the white police. > > If we waste too much energy on claiming those struggles without any recent > evidence that we are capable of that then we are hearding for a doom and > that is what the whites are craving like a juicy Mcdonalds burger passing > them. > > iAfrika lilizwe lethu and this madness that we achieved is far from what > Afrikans deserve, if we fail to reclaim it back then no one else will. > > Let us wake up for this is the last generation and after this there will no > longer be a Pan Afrikanist movement in South Afrika and most probably in > Afrika. > > One thing that is slowly but surely becoming evident is that we cannot > defeat this system by its own design (Parliament) and so it is up to us to > take a deciscion to continue wasting our time and humiliating ourselves in > the media or find an alternative, the alternative we all know I'm sure and > that is fighting the system the way it really works and not the lotto they > have created knowing that you will never guess the six numbers right (VOTES) > > I trust that these foolish words will not fall into deaf ears. > > IZWELETHU ZINDLALIFA ZASE AFRIKA!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Serame Mokgakala < > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: > Yes Comrade! our voice has always been feared. Please read > WhatsouthAfricaneed.docx and send me your opinion. > > > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Jaki Seroke <[email protected]<mailto: > [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] <mailto: > [email protected]> > > > Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:56:45 > > To: <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; < > [email protected] <mailto:[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]> [mailto: > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Jaki > Seroke > > Sent: 13 June 2011 10:42 > > To: Mduduzi Sibeko ; [email protected] <mailto: > [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] <mailto: > [email protected]> > > > Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:45:39 > > To: <[email protected] <mailto:[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. 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