Cde Mlaza The ANC leadership endorsed the Standard Bank funded Grahamstown festival as a national festival soon as they were unbanned. What really is their definition of a nation? The Grahamstown festival since its inception has always been a project of the 1820 Settlers Foundation, promoting the arts in South Africa from the point of view of the British. Rhodes University, the epicenter of the colonial town says it all. Cecil Rhodes is their founding father - an imperial figure who's done so much damage in form and content to Africa. Local people's art, up to today, is on the fringes when the July festival takes place. There is often a powerful production with English artistic features that is taking the main place. This is how colonial mentality of the leadership of the ANC expresses itself. And the un-conscientized follow without question. In Gauteng, the Rand Show in April always gets heavy promotion. The Rand Show actually celebrates the arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck and during apartheid it was held on the 6th of April. It never really varies from this. So those who attend the show celebrate with their colonial invaders, and get low prices for goods that they would never really get at such discounts. Some of my own family members says I'm being too political (read - revolutionary) when I expose their intellectual shortcomings and their do-it-yourself collaboration with their oppressors. Why don't we African people celebrate what rhymes with our own history and heritage, and to stand out from under the shadow of the valley of death? The Market Theatre Foundation, with liberals and so-called lefties from the northern suburbs on the board, named the remodeling of a toilet designed by Victorian architects after Kippie Moeketsi. Jazz enthusiasts caught on and frequented the place in large numbers. It was a toilet so the numbers were really not high. Until it was found to be on sinking ground and therefore not user-friendly the Joburg council and others liked the idea. Moeketsi is a premier musician who opposed abuse by authorities. He was a noted composer and encouraged the likes of Dollar Brand (Abdul Ibrahim) and Hugh Masekela to become associated with the national liberation struggle in their music. Listen to his compositions, "Blues for Hughie", and "Scullery Department", in which he protests that African musicians were put in the kitchen like monkeys before performance for an all white audience during the color bar period. When you drive to Thaba Tshwane or Pretoria you come face to face with the Voortrekkers Monument. This is an Afrikaner symbol of colonial conquest. Side by side, though it should be said in an obscure place somewhere on top of the koppie, is the ANC inspired Freedom Park. For me the Park is an expression of the confusion of the concept of Rainbow Nation. We are an African people. Jaki Fraser Smith - 0731669120
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:32:48 -0800 From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PAYCO] THE MATTHEW EFFECT To: [email protected] CC: [email protected] Comrade Seroke, Can’t agree more with you comrade Seroke, you see the ANC has always been an organization of collaborators, and traitors of the African masses and will continue to remain as such. Look, do we not find it ironic that the then racist settler led DF Malan regime named Moroka Police Station in Rockville Soweto after Dr. James Moroka who was at the time president of the ANC. Dr Moroka was indeed a useless fellow and a coward as he betrayed the African masses at the climax of the Defiance Campaign of 1952. When he was arrested in 1952 he did the unthinkable as during the trial he pleaded for mitigation of sentence and betrayed his own comrades. Well, the man had in the not so distant past been a member of the most hated Native Representative Council. Now the ANC during its centenary hullabaloos, the so-called centenary celebrations is calling upon the South African public to honour the legacy of such shady and unscrupulous characters in the liberation struggle. Izwe lethu... i-Afrika!!! Sebenzile Mlaza --- On Fri, 12/7/12, Jaki Seroke <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jaki Seroke <[email protected]> Subject: [PAYCO] THE MATTHEW EFFECT To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, December 7, 2012, 3:37 PM Comrades I have to say I've come to regard the Party leadership (especially between the years 1978 and 1985) with great respect for their valiant efforts to sustain the PAC's Mission in Exile and to maintain the continued recognition by the OAU, the UN and other world bodies when the Charterists, with their super-power backup, campaigned for sole representative of the aspirations of the people of South Africa. The entire liberation movement and its various schools of thought were required to genuflect at the altar of the Lusaka head office of the African National Congress. This battle which was lost in the corridors of the diplomacy was later translated into blood flowing in the streets of the townships where their satellites enforced sole recognition by decimating their own compatriots. The crux of this story has not been effectively told, but it is an important element in the conspiracy of devious forces that suppress - time and time again - the rise of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania. Whatever individual weaknesses that Vusi Make, David Sibeko and Elias Ntloedibe may have had, their victory after mobilizing the international community goes a long way. Achieving that small victory goes a long way in the struggle against an imposed hegemony. Advisers of the Charterist leadership have consistently driven for the achievement of this strategic goal to this day. From this point of view, the centenary celebrations in 2012 have become a cog in the wheels of this stratagem. They promote the notion that the ANC have monopolized the history of the liberation struggle and that their track record of scoring significant achievements have greater political power than those with less outstanding records. People are duped to associate with their movement, to hero worship their leaders, and to interact with their programmes, with the hope that by association they will improve their circumstances and derive a better life sometime in the future. We have been inundated a year long with ululations for the generation of cap-in-hand deputations to King George in Britain, the puppets who sat in dummy institutions like Malan's Advisory Councils, colonial chiefs in the Old Guard leadership and turn-coats like Dr James Moroka. The celebrants went on, using government resources like the SABC, to attempt to fool the public into believing that their history is of a continuing glorious performance. What exposes them - despite all the resources and propaganda efforts - is the internal quandary about the leadership qualities of Jacob Zuma, and the ongoing struggles of the masses such as that which led to the Marikana killing fields. The centenary celebrations is underscored by this political irony. Theoretically the strategy is best characterized as the Matthew Effect phenomenon: the belief that success as a source of power and influence breeds further success. It is derived from Matthew chapter 25 verse 29. "Unto everyone that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance - but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath." The Matthew Effect is basically the concept that the rich get richer and poor get poorer, which is effectively what the ANC stands for. Academics explain the phenomenon as an exercise of the kingpin getting disproportionately great credit and attention for the contribution of many others who are less known, basking in the glory of their achievements and taking them as his own. The kingpin would be the hyped Nelson Mandela image. He smartly tried to deny that his individual contribution does not overshadow that of his own comrades. However, he made the deal with the Nats on his own. he also said that when he gets to heaven he'll first ask for branch offices of the African National Congress. Theologians and the clergy, in all faiths, failed to debunk this theory of a sectarian heaven, and kept quite like Egyptian mummies. The media fixation with the African National Congress helped to sanitize the position that South African history of liberation struggle is the epic narrative of the African National Congress alone. This is a cheap falsehood. I do not undermine the impact of the Matthew Effect. Those who are brainwashed believe in the invincibility of the rich and powerful. They murmur their protest on the sides away from any eavesdropping but sheepishly sing the praises of the kingpins in the open. An unbridled capitalist social order concentrates wealth in the hands of the few. The productive forces are sidelined from enjoying the fruits of their work. Instead the oligarchy associated with power are exclusively wealthy, and they buy and influence their own branches of political parties. There is no genuine debate and discussions on priority matters of the day, and the plight of the masses is treated contemptuously and often scorned upon. What rules is the effective influence of the rich, who stole from poor. I however believe in the determined effect of the collective struggle and the objectives of the African revolution, and that despite the long road the masses will ultimately win. I'd wish for those who collude with the status quo, consciously or otherwise, to spend a moment reflecting on their roles in the further decline of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania. As activists we must do something. The PAC is guided by revolutionary Pan Africanism. Early political theorists of the Party conducted themselves like Spartans. They adopted a rigidly puritanical lifestyle and held faith in the palms of their hands. Faith in the African people, that is. They espoused virtues of simplicity, hard work, honesty, moral rigour, uprightness and an undying love of the masses. AP Mda, a highly qualified lawyer, lived in the deep rural areas of Lesotho and served those who cannot afford the high costs of legal fees. His son, Zakes Mda, could not bear to live like this and bolted against him. Uncle Zeph, also highly qualified, dedicated his entire life to the African cause at the expense of the suffering of his family members and his son who suffered glaucoma and eventually went blind. Pan Africanists do not have the Matthew Effect. The authentic PAC cannot be bamboozled by the Matthew Effect. By the bye, I am aware that my good old friend Matthew Phosa is the ANC's treasurer general. He is also a very wealthy man. Leina lebe seromo. 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