Cde Matome, Thanks for the response. I stand for militant approach and believe strongly that movements on the Left can never cease power from the ANC through the current status quo and moderate approach. I stand for the latter, overthrowal of the current system.
I agree with you that the reference point has to be totally different from that of 1959 noting that the material conditions have changed as well. We have tried unsuccessfully to argue this point in all PAC fora's(following our resolve that we shall attend and engage everywhere where PAC name is discussed) that we need to craft and adopt a new National Programme of Action that will define our vision and strategic direction going forward. We even went far by crafting IOTA programme of action and tried on many occasions to push the PAC to adopt it as its programme of action only to be opposed by those at somepoint we identified as progressive forces in the movement. I therefore believe we still have to define the revolutionary framework that will mold and inform our policy positions going forward. It would be rubbishing PAC and its legacy to push the former which seeks to improve the current system, we aren't reformist. I believe as the youth we can play a pivotal role in ensuring that PAC adopts a revolutionary path that seeks to overthrow the current and in ensuring that policy development follows this path. I understand revolutionary change to mean upsetting the current system, dismantling its pillars and replacing it with a new radical system that will bring true salvation for our people. That's what I stand for and the policy development I talk about revolves around this point of view. I pause. Izwe Lethu! Linda Ndebele Yours a socialist revolution Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -----Original Message----- From: "Matome Mashao" <mmas...@webmail.co.za> Sender: payco@googlegroups.com Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:11:15 To: payco@googlegroups.com<payco@googlegroups.com>; Mduduzi Sibeko<msib...@randwater.co.za> Reply-To: payco@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [PAYCO] Role of youth in policy development Comrade Linda, your invite-call is noted. I fully hear you on the need to maintain strong policy positions. The question is always what the point of reference is. In the case of the 1959 generation their point of reference was confrontation with the system and Pan Africanism in general. Our point of reference now can either be the prevailing system or the overthrow of the system altogether. The former would seek to introduce policy positions that will improve the system and that enhance the current system to be somewhat responsive, while the latter would be the eradication of the current system with policies concomitant with this frame of mind. If what you are inviting us to do relates to the former, I am unavailable for such a task for I can do it better as a civil servant if I decide to join Govt work. However if you depart from the latter I take the challenge and applaud you. The dilemma is always that the PAC for many years now has been on a vacillation path, and actually the greatest disabler of Sobukwe 's dream. The right thing, surely not the only, is for the PAC to adopt a framework of overthrow and then everybody amongst us can get down to policy development informed thereby. I am personally not available for any PAC activity that seeks to strengthen the system, either overt or convert. If this is the path I decided to find other things to do than engage in pleasantries of membership and sloganeering. If we decide we are on an overthrow path, like the masses are doing on their own, I am game any day and I will risk my all ! So I take your challenge with the caveat above. Viva PAC Matome Mashao On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:39:16 +0000 Mduduzi Sibeko <msib...@randwater.co.za> wrote > Cde Ndebele > > Your writing is enlivening our Africanist spirit. > > -----Original Message----- > From: payco@googlegroups.com [mailto:payco@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > linda ndebele Sent: 18 September 2013 08:58 AM > To: payco@googlegroups.com > Subject: [PAYCO] Role of youth in policy development > > Cde Jaki, Sibeko, Nkrumah, Mashao, Xaba and Mmbara > > I have been visiting PAC 1959 Manifesto which is a framework from which all > PAC policy positions are drawn. I have been marveling on the precise analysis > of the material conditions by PAC intellectual pioneers then. What crossed my > mind is that these guys were at our age when they developed that > revolutionary document. > > I have looked through certain policy documents of the party in areas like > economy, land and education and hold a view that the socialist outlook of the > PAC is lacking or not properly and practically articulated. > > I also remember the days where PAC had a Research Unit led by cde Mlomo and > Jaki Seroke. PAC by then could present coherent positions on different > issues. > > The issue here is that from the generation of PAC founding fathers to the > generation of Jaki there has been some level of youth participation in policy > development hence PAC projected a militant outlook in the political arena of > Azania. > > I am afraid our generation seems to be stucked on factional issues and little > on policy development in the party. The most revolutionary document ever to > be produced by PAC youth was PAYCO IOTA Programme of Action under the > leadership of cde Matome Mashao as President and Sbu Xaba as Secretary > General. I hold a view that as PAC youth we have been extremely lazy in > policy research, policy studies and developing critical writing in respect to > policy issues. > > I also hold a view that PAC has not developed processes to involve youth in > policy development therefore there's no continuity and proper initiation of > future policy makers to the art of policy making. This has detrimental > effects in the PAC quest to cease state power. > > Cde Jaki, how can we change this and how can we play a role in the Research > Unit of the PAC? > > Hope this will spark the necessary discussion on the role of youth in policy > development in the PAC. > > Linda Ndebele > Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! > > -- > -- > Sending your posting to payco@googlegroups.com > > Unsubscribe by sending an email to payco-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > 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 > payco+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. 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