How is ANC's political education going, then? Kwazi Mthembu, Letters, The Star, Johannesburg, 21 September 2016 In his closing address at the ANC's 53rd national elective conference, President Jacob Zuma announced that former ANC deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe would lead the ANC's political education programme. Zuma went on to commit his leadership to the political and ideological development of ANC members and also referred to Motlanthe as a seasoned cadre of the movement who knew a lot about the ANC. Four years on, we are still to have an update from the man who was given such an important task. We have heard a lot from Motlanthe about how the ANC is doing everything wrong, how the alliance is supposedly dead and how it seems that the country is on auto-pilot. We have also seen him receive thunderous applause from the media around his delivering of "hard truths" and for his speaking "truth to power, without fear or favour". But after all this has been said and done, may he be kind and fearless enough to update the world on the state of political education in the ANC with the same energy he has exerted in "exposing" ANC weaknesses? Likewise, to be fair to Motlanthe, may Zuma also let the whole world know how far this "seasoned" comrade has journeyed on this? Perhaps Motlanthe may claim that he is unable to do his job because of ANC leadership, something he has seemed happy to blame ever since he lost the elections in Mangaung. The lack of political education obviously has a hand in the divisions within the alliance and it was hoped that Motlanthe would resolve all this with a clear political and ideological development programme. Alas, membership is still waiting. Kwazi Mthembu Naledi, Soweto Transcribed from the hard copy __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14161 (20160922) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to yclsa-eom-forum@googlegroups.com or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email yclsa-eom-forum-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): yclsa-eom-forum-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to yclsa-eom-forum+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to yclsa-eom-forum@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/002a01d214c8%24f6385f70%24e2a91e50%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
