Cde Mdu, I am sure that our Leader, Cde Seroke, will come through with some meaningful response to your enquiry.
While we await his educated pen and thoughts, I thought of saying one or two small things which in time may contribute to the bigger issue you have put forth. While the role of collective leadership can never be down played, it is colossal, equally, to relegate the Leader to a by the way. A good leader enhances and pulls out the best off the collective while a poor leader thwarts it. Put simply, even if you were to assemble a good team unless you equally provide such team with a good leader it may operate far below standard. To assume that a Leader is a by the way, is to uphold the wrong version of what a Leader is believing such to be no more than just a portfolio. A leader inspires the collective for the collective like the masses too require inspiration and command of sort. True, having a good team is great, but placing such a team under the command of a Poor Leader is a reversal of note. A cursory look at all organisations including the PAC before it became an imagination of sorts, were led by gread Leader figures. There is a reason why organisations and societies appoint leaders and not just say Leadership. The second aspect that continually eats on what is left of the PAC is its abortive attemts to run the party as an administrative instrument and not a political vehicle that was formed to be. To be precise, an attempt to outsgate the ruling establishment by making statements about the inefficiency of their programs is lame. All what does is to work within the system, that is to be an appendage of the system. It is a negation of our mandate, the mandate to overhaul, destroy and overthrow the system. People on this efficiency line are as good as being in the ruling party because even inside there, there are people demanding that the system becom efficient. They have no desire to overthrow it, they in fact believe in it only that it is not efficient enough. This is the greatest danger of replacing the political line with admin lines. Until we engage in a life and death struggle as awaited by multitudes we will remain a commentary of sort. And these commentaries border on text book views around publicity. While we await our Commissar s comments I thought I will throw in my two cents worth. Matome Mashao Sent from my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: Mduduzi Sibeko <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 21:29:36 To: [email protected]<[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [PAYCO] Cdes Seroke, Nkumah, Ndebele Are individuals mightier than the organisations A common phrase these days in the political spectrum these days is " an individual is not stronger than the organisation". this phrase is invariably used in political parties a against embattled leaders who find themselves at odds with their organisations. Recently, leaders such as Zwelinzima Vami and Julius Malema found themselves in scuffles the ANC. Because they wield a certain support from within the lowest echelons of their organisation, to diffuse the impact that this could have to the ANC. Those who control the levers of control would normal say the ANC is bigger than individuals. Not only the ANC, I think most organisations including the PAC use this approach to minimise the impact of certain leaders if they are deposed. The reason I am raising this concern is because from empirical experience, influential individuals play prominent roles within organisations. If they are powerful, the easiest way to dismiss them is to say organisations are bigger than they. Maybe this will address some deficiency lacking within the PAC of Azania. The firebrand Julius Malema was dismissed as an individual far smaller than the ANC, but when he launched his splitter movement, it became clear that he was posing a threat to the ANC's support base particularly the youth. Today newspapers are replete of the EFF and Julius Malema, actually it is Julius Malema who is sensational than the EFF. Within COSATU, we heard the same rhetoric " COSATU is bigger than Vavi" , however when Sdumo Dalmini was addressing a COSATU march Vavi's supports chanted pro Vavi slogans. So where was the COSATU bigger than Vavi. we are made to believe that individual cannot be tail wagging the organizations. But it is clear the influence of influencial individuals should not be discounted as marginal. Who was greater between the NAZI party and Adolf Hitler ? could the NAZI Party have thrived without Hitler ? Sobukwe was not infallible as a human being. But, he seems to have more recognition than the PAC. Was the PAC greater than him ?. I am not upholding individualism per se, but I am trying to bear out the importance of visible and recognizable leadership in political formations. To the PAC context the PAC has been suffering organizational paralysis for a long time, until now, it has not managed to produce a leader who can be visible to the masses. PAC leaders are hardly known to the masses. Go to the street, ask people who is the president of the PAC ( forget about the asking who is the acting president). The answer that you will get is " I don't know'. Sadly, if the EFF is going to undercut us in the forthcoming elections, I will be justified in my argument that the PAC has a deficiency of a strong leader. History has long proven the thrust of my arguments, late comers such as Teror Lekota of COPE performed much better than us in elections, despite having less than a year before contesting. 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