Comrade Phillip
There are many factors that influences the performance of the PAC, yes branch political functionality is one but not necessarily the only factor. . Some factors such as the organisational culture and organisational capabilities (competencies) cutting across all levels of the party such as national, provincial, regional leadership including members, cannot be negated in terms of the role they play and the amount of time and resources invested in daily mass political work. If the last national congress had 600 delegates it implies PAC has at least 12000 members, fact is PAC members exceeds 12000, the most crucial factors is to determine and resolve factors that caused many to inactive and other opted to be dormant. As a party we must appreciate all forms of talents and through strategically leadership and thinking (which is lacking) draw and harness these talents across all generations and experiences towards strengthening the PAC thus enabling the PAC to tackle key public policy issues. . On organisational culture, internal wrangling have had a negative effect on the party and all its members! Surely, there should be courage to focus on key issue such a areas where party structures and members agree and there must be deliberate strategy to inculcate a different organisational culture that will give effect to positive attitude and forward movement of the party, therefore branches which assume the required character and role. . Some factors such as party theoretical cohesion and strategic thrust based on clearly defined and translated to programme, set of goals and results. The centrality of developing institutional capabilities required by the NEC cannot overemphasised, thus numeric are necessary but without organisation and strategy they remain a meaningless quantity. . The number of branches and members to create the required critical mass to effect the envisaged impact has not been thought-out and planned A unified party with a clear strategy and organisational discipline is capable to achieve and win many battles irrespective of numbers it has which can be grown on yearly basis. Shango lashu Nkrumah From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 07 March 2013 01:09 PM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: Is our branch structure fake or useless? See if you can deal with this logic: The PAC copies the ANC political structure and it is described in our constitution. The purpose of branches and members is to shore up support and determine a democratic decision making process. The ANC in 2008 had 900 000 members and got 10 Million Votes. If we have similar ratio we should have 4000 members for the 45 000 votes we got. According to our constitution we should have had 200 delegates for our 4000 members. At our last conference we had 600 delegates! Either the delegates were falsely tabled, or our members are absolutely useless at turning support into votes. Comrade you decide, is our Branch structure fake or is it useless? Or can I, with 3 degrees in Mathematical Economics not add up numbers? -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pan Africanist Youth Congress" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
