The outcome of the Court proceedings in the matter pertaining to the legality of the Alice Congress was as interesting as has been the many other legal fracas the PAC has had to endure over the years.
Whilst this is continued evidence of the Party leadership s inability to find the key driving anchors, there is another dimension I find attractive for analysis. The dimension of leadership, and a point has to be made here that whilst leadership is the single most important glue for organisational viability, there are many other variables that hold sway to a party s direction and success. And whilst I welcome the Court decision and it must be said well done to the engineers of it, I must admit that I was not an inch surprised of this ruling. My preoccupation is on something else I will share later on, herein. In less than six months of office it became evident that President Letlapa (perhaps as he then was) had embarked on a no return path to self destruction and organisational paralysis. Contrary to what many people PERCEIVE it increasingly became clear that there was real incapacity to take decisions including on matters about which we had given a clear mandate, for his benefit some of them. A telling example was his failure to secure proper accomodation for himself when we had, some of us millitantly at the time, resolved that he should sign as signatory and secure himself decent place. He was our President and had our undivided support and loyalty. The list of indecision instances is sizeable. Perhaps the indecision was a result of leadership inexperience and would be cured with time, so we wanted to convince ourselves. But then other things happened. In post apartheid SA he presided and engineered the break up of the PAC into small insignificant pieces. This was very painful and it still is. Two splinter movements sprang out of the party, including his attempt at killing PAYCO by introducing some league concept. I personally have little regard for the two individuals who led these splinter groups as they are just as much opportunists. The issue is that the desire for people to break up Parties is always there but leadership prevails. In cases where the split is not avoidable, organisational performance must absolve you as some form of 'mitigation'. In this instance the party is on a desperate downslide appealing to mainly the few councillor segments most of whom are driven by survivalist interests. So having seen all of these, the outcome was always on the cards. My real issue is what then, and I think we must tread slowly, carefully and robustly drawing from our past experiences. There is no doubt as there never was, that the Alice concoction was ill advised and fatal for the Party. Whatever we do on the leadership question, we must place cadres in charge only once we know fully well what they stand for and what their character make is. It is this aspect we should engage each other accross. Izwe Lethu iAfrika ! Matome Mashao Sent from my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: Tommy ka-Ntando <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 12:44:41 To: [email protected]<[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [PAYCO] Re: [PAC] Gauteng meeting Cde Jabu! I want to thank you for the initiative you took on an endeavour to coordinate PAC in your region. Your affords and action are courageous Noble Son and this party needs people like you. However allow me to invite all the Regions of Gauteng (Westrand, Joburg, Tshwane, Ekhurhuleni and Sedibeng Region) to participate in this important deliberation, dialogue and engagement which will seek to pave a wayward for us. This will also give us time to reflect on the outcomes of the December 2011 Pretoria meeting of former PAYCO, PASMA, AZANYO, PASO and SRC Leaders. We also note the tremendous work that Dr Pheko and his team have made in ensuring victory in this regard. Hence we believe that this situation and challenges that the party is faced with needs a conceited afford from us and ensure that this matter is laid to rest and total removal of the current PAC Regime. It is true that for the total rectification of the current political disorder that prevails in the party, we also need a political approach and for us to do this correctly we need to have masses behind us. Hence the invitation is now targeting all regions of Gauteng. Logistics of the meeting: DATE: 25 FEBRUARY 2012 VENUE: SANKOPANO 's boardroom, ALEXANDRA township, Cnr 12th and Selborne street. TIME: 12H30 to 15H30 For further clarification and one-one engagements please liaise with the following: Jabu @079 229 4820, Tommy @ 082 930 8735, Lekgema @ 082 443 5706, Vaughan 076 982 4260 or Kubayi @ 082 077 7410. ________________________________ From: Jabu Makhanya <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, 6 February 2012, 8:31 Subject: [PAYCO] meeting Revolutionary greetings! Attention: PAC members and sympathisers Re:Letlapa's legal status Some will recall that Letlapa and his backers have always been arguing that PAC matters could not be dictated by the country's judiciary institutions but in contrary, Letlapa had applied for an appeal in Cape High Court in a bid to overturn the ruling of his nullification as the PAC head. On the 23rd January 2012, the Cape court rejected his appeal after observing amongst other things: that Letlapa organised the so called Alice Congress under decree, he unilaterally amended the constitution under decree, thus side-lining other genuine members from the PAC, the PAC contested previous local and national elections under decree. Letlapa was advised by the court that he is no longer the PAC president but remain as an ordinary member and his appeal was rejected with costs. A WAY-FOWARD MEETING DATE: 25 FEBRUARY 2012 VENUE: SANKOPANO 's boardroom, ALEXANDRA township, Cnr 12th and Selborne street. 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