Cde Ndebele, Seroke and Nkrumah Thami ka plaatjie penned an open letter to Julias Malema wherein he pleaded with him not to form a new rival political formation against the ANC. In his letter he wrote
"Angry with the ANC and disgusted by the extent to which the communists had infiltrated its ranks, a crop of youth leaguers based in Orlando broke ranks with the ANC in 1958. Before they could finalise their decision they approached AP Mda, one of the founders of the ANC Youth League and a close alter-ego of Anton Lembede, for counsel. Mda advised that the youth should work within the ranks of the ANC and systematically advocate their views' Their leader, Robert Sobukwe, challenged the advice and argued that: "Mda's ideas are no longer sacrosanct." He wrote this letter in his counsel to Malema to learn from historical antecedent that rival formations against the ANC would always fail. Strangely, if you follow his argument from the above cited passage, he ends his narrative of the so called 'crop of youth leaguers based in Orlando' without saying that the PAC did not succeed because Mda had advised that youth " should work within the ranks of the ANC and systematically advocate their views'. As he points out that Sobukwe didn't believe in the sacrosanctity of the views of Mda. One would have expected the letter to tell us that the challenge of the infiltration of the communist within the ranks of the ANC in the 1950's was misguided. This is a point which Thami is eluding if not glossing over it. I have learned that he is writing a biography of Sobukwe, some of the findings of his research should be taken with the pinch of the salt. For instance, in the documentary of Sobuwe which was screened by SABC: he says there were some attempts to get Sobukwe escaped to exile, which Sobuwe rejected. Had he derided Sobukwe, I would have waited with keen interest to read his biography of Sobukwe. Some few years ago, I spoke to him about disbanding PAM and coming back to the PAC, he said to me: ' the wounds of our division are so deep, they need some time to heal" he continued " we should always venerate Sobuwe" It seems that he is at pains to enter the fray of the community of PAC detractors. It is one thing to cherish certain ethos, and another thing to join the ranks of those with antithetical views of what you have believed in. some years before 1994, Dr Ziba Jiyane who was the secretary general of the IFP said: " the IFP believes that there is only one race and the race is the human race". This plagiarism of the PAC values was indicative of an embedded PAC's philosophy within himself Jiyane.Thami is no different to other dissidents, I believe he has some emotional conflict between Charterism and Pan Africanism. 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