Determining a Good Standing Branch!
Izwe lethu During the Leadership Development Workshop held on the 11th October 2014, attended by 7 Branch Executive Committees coming from Johannesburg Region plus PASO members and Eastrand/ Ekhuruleni Regional Executive Committee member, the constitutional interpretation and application of the concept-principle member(s) in Good Standing and/or branch(es) in Good Standing lost its full comprehensive meaning and content. And this largely, furthermore explains some of the political and organisational problems facing the party. The incorrect thus incomplete interpretation and application of the principle Good Standing has been reduced to narrowly imply :- • A member in good standing has been understood and applied as meaning a paid up member from a launched branch with at least 20 paid members; • and a branch in good standing meant which had its Annual General and with 20 plus paid up members having an elected Branch Executive Committee; This (above) interpretation is incomplete since it focus narrowly on selected few clauses which are mainly administrative and partly organisational, but this interpretation ignored the political requirements to define and describe a Good Standing Branch and a Good Standing Member. Section 20.1 until 20.3 provide almost eight requirements which further provides a description of what constitutes a PAC branch constitutionally for a branch to politically qualify and meet the first part to be a Good Standing Branch! These eight requirement are well described and stated in section Political Component and Elements:- Clause No. Applicable Constitutional Requirement-Prescripts 20.1 1. Carry organizational work amongst the masses 2. Carry educational work amongst the masses 3. Acquaint them with the aims and objects, policies and programmes of the organization 20.2 4. Keep (continuous and constant) close contact with the masses and 5. Provide continual leadership and guidance to the oppressed people in area 20.3 6. Foster the spirit of initiative among the people 7. Take the leading part in organizing the masses to solve problem in the area. 8. Organise the masses to solve their problems in the area Therefore, a branch can be deemed as a Good Standing branch because it fully complies with clause 20.1 until 20.3, its (branch) activities which serves as evidence to demonstrate and proof that the branch’ political mandates as per clause 20.1 until 20.3 had been carried out. The above diagram should also be understood within the context that the PAC considers a branch as a basic building block whose primary purpose of existence is to propagate the Aims and Objectives of the PAC among the masses and also execute strategies which enables the PAC though the branch to exist and operate within and among the labouring African majority. Therefore, a branch is a party's political organ for mass mobilisation and mass agitation, therefore a Good Standing Branch is a branch which fully carries and execute the party's political mandate as per clause 20.1 until clause 20.3. I will share the other components of determining a Good Standing Branch of PAC as the days unfolds! Shango lashu! Nkrumah Raymond Kgagudi 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/d/optout. -- -- 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/d/optout. -- -- 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/d/optout.
