The information is invaluable indeed.Thanx a lot. Mawande ________________________________
From: payco@googlegroups.com [mailto:pa...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jaki Seroke Sent: 23 July 2010 12:00 PM To: Mawande Jack; payco@googlegroups.com Subject: [PAYCO] FW: Emailing: Stories - Peter Molotsi, sowetoUprising, PAC_internal, Stories - Joe Matthews, Stories - James April, Stories - Philip Kgosana Cde Mawande Jack I kept procrastinating, making excuses to change and shift arrangements to a later date, until the old man 'Molotsi passed on. Before then I'd regularly paid him a visit in Kroonstad and we would analyse current events. I had firmly arranged to meet with him in July during the football World Cup but then when his nephew, Adam, said he was not well, and that they had moved him to Steinsrust, I decided to fix a later date. So the meeting with Peter 'Molotsi did not take place. It is sad news to hear of his death. I needed to complete the historical puzzle: Gaur Radebe was a prominent activist who died in Zambia in the late sixties but very little has been said of him by Pan Africanists. Our study group in Alex sought to find out more on this person and the only surviving leader of the PAC to whom he reported was Peter 'Molotsi. Gaur Radebe recruited Nelson Mandela into active politics and made a lasting impression on the man such that many believe Mandela even tried to walk like him. Radebe led the 1946 mine workers' strike; was leader of both the Evaton and Alexandra bus boycotts in the fifties; was an entrepreneur involved in mortgage loans for Africans buying land in these townships on freehold title; led the Communist Party of SA until his expulsion on ideological grounds - led the African National Congress until the Charter was adopted - and, led the Africanists in Alex and Evaton before going into exile after Sharpeville; served on the SA United Front in Zambia and when this collapsed reverted to PAC work; and, then he was reported to have died in Zambia. Mandela refers to him in his autobiography, "Long Walk to Freedom" . The SACP heralds him as a hero and pioneer of the miners strikes in South Africa. In the PAC his story is little known and never highlighted. The group in Alex asked me to research further on Gaur Radebe and to tell the complete picture. Peter 'Molotsi knew him well and even other stalwarts like Ike Mafole who knew him in exile referred me to 'Molotsi. The PAC of Azania has made a major contribution to the development of cadres and to placing the struggle in an international context (when some were bleating about exceptionalism and exclusiveness from the rest of the continent) and we who carry the torch of revolutionary Pan Africanism must consciously highlight these facts. We must also carry our heads up high as we walk the streets and tell these stories from our fingertips. We are a great movement of the African people. The aberrations we go through - ineffective implementation through mediocre and clumsy characters, money mongering tendencies, demagogues, deceit and blue lies, and the promotion of 'mountain-topism' where one must be the leader at the top or the whole organisation crumbles, etc. - are just aberrations and will soon be swept aside by the new currents of the African revolution. Victory is certain and history will bear this out. I therefore salute bo-Molotsi and others and I think we should all learn from them and not repeat the mistakes they made. Jaki Seroke ________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it now. <https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969> -- 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 -- 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
