Thanks Cde. Sbu for coming out in the open about your leadership ambitions after weeks of silence since the matter was brought to the fore on this platform.
Those asking for clarity on the turning point that has led to circumstances where those whom we thought were not supportive (as a matter of principle) of the oncoming illegitimate congress, now all of a sudden inform us that they have "accepted nomination", are correct. The same goes for those asking the question "who nominated you". These are principled questions premised on valid principled positions taken by majority of party members. Therefore these questions should be seen as necessary confrontations. It is not in anyway a display of antagonism towards anyone. Even if it is, I would say it is antagonism against unprincipled behavior which cadres of the party are not only entitled to raise but in fact obliged to raise and object to, in defense of the party. Its about being principled. Surely we can't mouth ill-informed slogans about principled unity while pursuing unprincipled programmes. So as a starting point, we should boldly say there is nothing wrong with these questions and those who raise them, rightly so shouldn't be made to feel as though they are committing an atrocity against the party. As stated before, it is a futile exercise to nominate or elect 'leadership' when there is no programme of action. We can't rely on the generosity, academic achievements and talents of mortals. More need to be said about this point because it seems to be un-understood. The excuse or false belief by those who miss this point is that the PAC already has a programme of action. To this they refer to the aims of the party and the 1959 Pan Africanist manifesto. It should be clarified that these represents a mere statements of policy. In other words, what the party stands for. A programme of action answers the question what the party must do to achieve its objectives. These will be adapted from one historical epoch to another, one political era to another without compromising the historic mandate. There was the positive action campaign and there was the armed struggle. There was also the student confrontation against the bantu education to spark off a national uprising against apartheid settler colonial regime. The formation of the very component structures of the party, in particular PASO and AZANYU, was born out of a programme to keep the PAC message flying openly and mass mobilisation going during exile, robben island and underground years. Those were programmes to realise what the party stands. The party must decide what it must do to mobilise the poor African working class and seize state power in the next 5, 10, 15 to 20 years. It is such a programme of action that the party needs, the only basis upon which leadership of the party should emerge, not personal manifestos. The PAC did not have a programme of action into and post 1994. We have just been going with the flow, riding the bus of the 'new' South Africa and indeed behaving as though there is a new South Africa and actually collaborating with the status quo. Any talk of simply forging unity and jacking up administration as a panacea to solve the party woes is no different from the status quo. It should also be said that a programme of action must not emerge by chance but must be a product of conscious and deliberate action. Unity, administration and mouthing party ideology and slogans, I'm afraid are not what I would call a programme of action. I must confess that the PAC 'leadership manifesto' as presented to us is a shabby attempt at articulation of what the PAC represents, painfully shallow, incoherent and sub-standard considering the level of the ambitions. The only reason to explain this under-representation of the party position is the evident lack of grasp of the party position in the first place and poor ideological grounding. This situation evokes those memories when persons who call themselves leaders of the party take a platform to articulate the party line, and all you want to do is just shut your ears or eyes. It is unfair to expect cadres of the party to swallow this bile in dignified friendship and unity of convenience. We must demand the best from those who present themselves for leadership, especially in the most inappropriate and unprincipled ways such as we are subjected to. Needles to say, a programme of action must be a product of the organisation because it must be carried out by the organisation as a whole at various levels and different fronts. It is the embodiment of the organisation's strategic focus and not infantile dreams of individuals. Neither can it be given to PAC as a gift from 'educated professionals'. We have all gone to school and are all exposed to the workplace, corporate or otherwise. There is no glory in bantu slave mentality exaggeration of the value of academic certificates. It is not necessary for one to delve into the role of party members and structures in the process of coming up with party leadership. Obviously leaders are nominated by properly constituted structures of the party at the right place. We must depersonalise the manner in which the leadership question is approached in the party. Because leaders must champion the cause of the party through a clear programme of action, they cannot present their agendas as individuals or factions. There must be one party agenda, a programme for a given time adopted and adapted by party members, which all leaders must at different epochs advance. Many organisations, corporate and political alike, fail because of this personilisation of the organisation. Every new leadership comes with their own little funny agenda. The agenda is changed each time there is leadership change and the more leadership is changed in this manner, the more things remain the same. It is experiment after experiment. Organisations are subjected to the whims of individuals or cliques and not the programme of the organisation. We have a duty to stop this unorganisational culture in the PAC. We must not allow our party to be reduced into a guinea pig for learnership stunts. Izwelethu! Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -----Original Message----- From: Bongani Keith <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 19:24:03 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [PAYCO] PAC Leadership Manifesto Cadre Krumah you've said mouthful insofar as unity is concerned, to all comrades going to congress let contribute meaningful in building PAC. On 7/8/12, Nkrumah <[email protected]> wrote: > Comrade Linda > > Genuine comrades within the PAC including its component structures aspire > for a state whereat members and particularly those in leadership positions > and those who might have led should not be pharisist on forging party unity. > We should not condemn Letlapa and other for being factionalist when we are > indifferent. > > I personally urge you and many other PAC members that at all times efforts > should be made to achieve unity among comrades as opposed to antogonising > each and every PAC comrade who hold differing views. The resentment comrades > have against each other is not healthy and above all it deepens disunity > within the PAC. > > While the ANC continues to dismally fail in bringing any meangingfull change > for the vast majority of the African masses and neocolonialism strengthens > its stranglehold in Africa, we as PAC continue to be weaken by our own > inability to unite even on the most basic and less complex matters. I > believe that all of us should spent whatever remaining energy and > intelligence we each posses to forge unity with purpose and unity in action. > > > There are comrades who have condemned the approach to resolve PAC political > and organisational issues through neocolonial and bourgouisie courts and > preferred more of party internal mechanism amidst the daunting challenges > including counter organisation. However, there are comrades who strongly > believe that political efforts had been tried without success thus the court > approach might bring a solution whilst other comrades embraced all forms of > interventions to reclaim the PAC position the party on a socialist > revolutionary programme. We can appreciate all the three perspectives since > none is antagonistic to the others, most comrades are driven by a > determination to reclaim and rebuild the PAC, thus we should forge unity > with a common purpose amd action than attack each others to an extent we are > indifferent to the self contradictory statements of cde Letlapa. Cde Xaba > views should be appreciated and like many other views we should contribute > in making their effort and risks to be succesful to reclaim the PAC, thus > all comrades who will attend this congress should be encouraged to be united > and act in unison as oppossed to experiences of Alice whereat comrades who > complained about the decree failed yo act in unison thud Letlapa was > retained. If the court application fails and if attempts to reclaim PAC from > Letlapa are also not successful, then this implies all in PAC is back to > where things have been before. . . > > Forge unity than disunity, organise and not agonise other comrades. > > I can only hope that in my message there is adeqaute sense and reason. > > Shango > Nkrumah Raymond Kgagudi > 0749226361 > > Sent from Samsung tablet > > linda ndebele <[email protected]> wrote: > >>Interesting, its no longer about leadership collective. This campaign seeks >> to legitimize Letlapa and his flawed processes. >> >> >>Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Sbusiso Xaba <[email protected]> >>Sender: [email protected] >>Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 20:17:21 >>To: <[email protected]> >>Reply-To: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: [PAYCO] PAC Leadership Manifesto >> >>On 6 July 2012 18:55, Hulisani Mmbara <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I came across this 'manifesto' on facebook. >>> >>> "I accepted nomination for position of PAC President. I pledge to this >>> commitment."- Sbusiso Xaba >>> >>> PAC Leadership Manifesto >>> >>> By Sbusiso Xaba >>> >>> Preamble >>> >>> Our major focus is to foster principled party unity, reconcile party >>> members and create space for members to excel in the service of African >>> people. We will collectively provide guidance on resolving the current >>> constitutional crisis. We appreciate that PAC strength lies in its >>> ideology >>> and the application of democratic centralism should be based on >>> enforceable >>> decision-making model, which is capable of eliminate unmanaged conflict >>> and >>> power abuse with the PAC. >>> >>> Vision >>> >>> To build a strong PAC institutional capability to confront injustices, >>> install revolutionary values and sustain Africanist Socialist Democracy. >>> >>> Key pillars of PAC program of action >>> >>> Accelerate PAC cadre development and political education (Pan >>> Africanism, >>> strategy and tactics). >>> >>> Develop PAC campaigning capacity in various areas >>> >>> Sovereignty, reparation, economic self-determination and Africanist >>> Socialist production >>> >>> Holistic life quality to foster the Africanist personality (education, >>> health and housing). >>> >>> Nation building (organising African nation scattered across the world). >>> >>> Develop PAC regulations (internal policies) that guide decision-making >>> and >>> foster party unity such as: >>> >>> PAC Cadre Deployment Regulation (Selection, Monitoring and Evaluation) >>> >>> PAC Delegation of Authority Regulation (what structure make which >>> decision) >>> >>> PAC Investment Regulation (where and how the party invests) >>> >>> Develop institutional capacity (strong administrative machinery). >>> Separate >>> institutional governance, bureaucratic and technocratic functions of the >>> party >>> >>> Elect leadership to focus on institutional (corporate) governance of >>> party. >>> >>> Appoint professional staff to run day-to-day administration machinery of >>> party. >>> >>> Appoint professional staff to conduct technocrat work of the party such >>> as >>> preliminary policy research. >>> >>> Cooperation and systematic coordination of membership participation in >>> social movement. This creates capacity for the party to deliver >>> alternative >>> channels for basic services. >>> >>> Deliberate financial support of component structures to organise in >>> mandated social sector. >>> >>> Offensive component structure (students, labour and women) >>> >>> Defensive component structure (youth and military veteran) >>> >>> Conclusion >>> >>> The miserable, poverty stricken, war mongers and disease riddled Europe >>> destroyed African sovereignty. European society further built its >>> capitalism trance on the foundation of African blood, African labour and >>> African land resources. This low culture society is determined to >>> perpetuate these injustices through various schemes of neo-colonialism >>> therefore revolution is a necessity for African people. >>> >>> It is the responsibility of African people to develop mechanisms and >>> institutions for their total liberation. PAC is the institution for the >>> implementation of the revolution, which is a well planned and >>> immaculately >>> executed series of events that is design to bring fundamental social >>> change >>> and alteration in power relations. It is my firm believe that there can >>> never be a sustainable revolution without a revolutionary party, a >>> revolutionary party without revolutionary program, a revolutionary >>> program >>> without revolutionary leadership and revolutionary leadership without >>> revolutionary theory. 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