At times naivety can project itself to the outer world as arrogance. Some persons within this category also prefer the arrogance label as it gets them feeling a sense of false control. A closer interrogation of whether Mr Phahlele is arrogant or naïve needs to be drawn more from the facts, and less from his talk most of which I respectfully submit is more adolescent and somewhat thoughtless. The answer lies in the meticulous interrogation of: naivety vs arrogance.
And I want to submit that for what is worth, Mr Mphahlele is and has been for a long time naïve, whose only arrogance is failure to transcend his naivety. I personally have little sympathy for Him save in so far as the party fed his naivety in exile and in the early 1990s. These are the origins of his naivety. Let's us engage on a few indicators. When we approached Letlapa in person and to a very large extent introduced his Presidential campain pre-Qwaqwa we agreed with him on a mandate. At that point we made it clear that once elected it was up to him to lead as he deems fit except that we agreed that a few areas are non negotiable, namely that we back him for so long as he will set the Country ablaze through campaigns and mass mobilisation work, and adherence to party ideology and discipline. As we now know he has just like many of our past Presidents been a no factor to the ruling regime and when he camouflages he engages in very harmless rhetoric. No mass actions have taken place nor are there any on the cards. Similarly he has operated outside the prescripts of our constitution, itself a manifest of naivety and general leadership incapacity. And these manifestations were early to show and ingratiate themselves. I think it was courage, not too common, of us to be the first ones when we were convinced that the man is naïve, poised to inflict untold damage to the party, to swiftly advise him to step down, and shared with all party structures the urgent need to have him step aside, despite the fact that we had backed him initially. Since then he has presided on an ill fated program to break the party into small pieces right through the young and old cadres of our movement, including those with whom he served outside the Country. Take the following instances: when he campaigned for President he stated he will serve one year and fix the party, he stated he will not go to Parliament, etc. All of these we advised were pipe dreams of a naïve virgin type personality with no grasp of any leadership principles. When he passed a decree he had no clue what the implications were except to fulfill an outburst, very ill advised. The current decree will not stand any objective scrutiny of any kind either. His leadership of OUR millitary forces is also awash with these spontaneity and naivety. Some of these looked like heroism but they were in fact naïve outside party line behaviours. In the process the party was hugely harmed. I am of the strong mind we are dealing here with a naïve character who is so insecure that he creates a smokescreen of arrogance which in fact is naivety. What is important though is: - to voice our objections and take action as we are doing against this naivety, - to plan and prepare for a mass rolling program and entrust this to people that are truly ready and able to serve - not to repeat the mistakes of the past in correcting the current situation, and to use all our lessons fully. Afrika is Our Land !! Matome Mashao Sent from my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: "linda ndebele" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:39:11 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PAYCO] Fw: DECREE Greetings comrades, The absurdity of this Decree is that it is invoked outside the parameters and limitations of the constitution. There is no crisis in the party except Mphahlele and co. The source of crisis cannot simultaneously be the source of stability and solution. The critical point is that Letlapa is no longer PAC President therefore has no legal right as per 2000 constitution to lead PAC or declare a decree. His term of office expired in September 2009. The measures taken towards the seating of the June Congress are factionalist, divisive and absurd to say the least. The appointment of the very individuals who failed to get the administrative and organizational systems to work properly is nothing but rewarding incompetence and pushing a divisive factional agenda. The very comrades appointed failed to convened an inclusive PAC congress hence the three judgements. Letlapa, Mudihni and co are hopeless cases and cannot work for unity, they thrive on anarchy and divisions. We need an inclusive Congress Organizing body that shall be tasked with issuing of membership cards, launching branches, verification of branches and issuing of delegate and observer status and other congress logistics. In the meanwhile it is important to explore the question of Administrators to handle day to day party affairs until Congress decides on a new leadership collective. Izwe lethu! Kwame Ndebele Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -----Original Message----- From: "Hulisani Mmbara " <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:23:33 To: PAYCO GOOGLE GROUP PAYCO GOOGLE GROUP<[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PAYCO] Fw: DECREE Cde. Mdu We all strife for a united PAC but the unity must be under pinned by principle, common vision and a programme of action to rebuild the party and position it as a contender for state power in our political space (locally, continentally and internationally). Our unity as members of an organisation, who are brought together by ideology and a constitution, should be consistent with the purpose of our existence. My experience of at least the past 5 years have taught and shown me that Letlapa takes PAC members for granted and is not interested in unity even if it is causeless unity . To say for granted its actually an understatement - he has no regard for PAC members. That is why he does anything he want, anytime time he want with our precious PAC. I equate his treatment of PAC members to someone who urinate on his parent's grave. The first time he abused the power to invoke a decree he had no good reasons for doing so. His raping of the constitution in Alice and creating of parallel structures was not in the interest of the party. He did not even follow the nullified constitution. Since 2008 the PAC has never had an annual conference. How can a party with an important task as the PAC exist without meeting from the bottom to the top and reviewing its programmes, policies, strategy and tactics? This is high treason. If it was in the army, the perpetrator would be deserving of execution. His latest decree is also not in the interest of the party. He is not authourised to do all this. He never had the power to dissolve the NEC, not in terms of the 2000 constitution. Needless to say dissolving the NEC is also a dissolution of all members of the NEC including President. The way the Alice congress was constituted was not in accordance with the constitution and so is the congress scheduled for June. You cannot convene a congress when a constitution is suspended. It is up to PAC members to foster unity within the ranks of the party and sometimes you foster unity by flushing out divisive elements. I don't think that the latest move by Letlapa will lay any basis for unity. We can only hope to achieve unity if we put an end to Letlapa's anarchy not by becoming part of it. What Letlapa has been doing for the past 5 years is nothing but anarchy, absolute anarchy. I hate devoting time focusing on an individual instead of discussing real issues (programmes, policies, strategy, tactics) that take the party forward. Izwelethu! Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -----Original Message----- From: Mduduzi Sibeko <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:55:31 To: <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [PAYCO] Fw: DECREE Cde Mmbara: I hope this is the beginning of unity within the PAC. I sincerely hope that that the new leadership will be endorsed by all structures. I hope, we will never hear two dissenting voices from the PAC. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hulisani Mmbara Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 3:30 PM To: PAYCO GOOGLE GROUP PAYCO GOOGLE GROUP Subject: [PAYCO] Fw: DECREE Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:07:27 To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Subject: DECREE comrades, please find the attached document: DECREE It is good that he decided to write it down, then we can identify loopholes. The resumtion of decree is a loophole already bcs in his mind the decree he did before Fort Hare is continuing. that is out of order . . . unprocedural bcs the Fort Hare Congress sitting has not been nullified by the court only two resolutions i) Pheko's expulsion; 2) Constitutional ammendment. Constitutional ammendment being nullified automatically invalidated the elected NEC because it was elected based on that ammended Constitution. That means in my view they previous NEC is suppose to be in place. We are having a Press Conference on Friday morning in Cape Town. Izwe Lethu -- 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 <http://www.mayihlome.wordpress.com> 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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