Bongani I was hoping that you will expand more on the Eye of A Needle
Theory.
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:55 PM, bongani hanise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
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> Congress of (Rich) People
>
> They never struggled to be poor. The upcoming political party which
> believes in stealing other party?s history is mistakenly calling
> itself the congress of the people. This party is not the Congress of
> People but Congress of the rich, is established to defend the
> bourgeoisie democracy that was established by the 1996 class project
> led by the former state president Thabo Mbeki. The majority of the
> people who are involved in this organisation are those who were in
> government for the past 14 years. Also the majority of them with their
> families have benefited from the broad based economic policies that
> were implemented under the leadership of Thabo Mbeki. Today they claim
> that the ANC has been hijacked by both the South African Communist
> Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions. So they are
> establishing the new party so that they can defend democracy,
> bourgeoisie democracy. These people cannot stand the fact that the
> working class has control over the direction and leadership of the
> party.
> There are four points that I would like to highlight about those who
> are aligned or will be leaders of the Congress of the (Rich) People.
> First the majority of them although they claim that they represent and
> seek to defend democracy, are anti-democracy themselves. They claim
> to be democrats how come they did not respect democratic elections?
> These people were defeated in Polokwane and they did not accept the
> leadership that won in December. My question is will they be able to
> accept the elections result next year? I think they will not accept
> them. They will complain and make claims that elections were not free
> and fair, that they were threatened by the party in government which
> is the African National Congress. This claim will not be new as the
> United Democratic Movement had claimed in the past. The second point
> is that these people do not or not want to understand the document
> titled ?Through the eye of the needle? when it says that to be an
> African National Congress leader in not an entitlement. People like
> Lekota and Shilowa have stayed in power for so long that they thought
> they have an absolute right and that they are entitled to be leaders
> of the ANC. This is characteristic of many of the heroes of
> liberation movements in Africa. Thirdly, these people are very much
> concerned not in serving the poorest of the poor people but of
> servicing their stomachs. As Smuts Ngonyama had said that he ?never
> joined the struggle to be poor.? Finally we see so-called
> intellectuals being involved with this new party, person like Barney
> Pityana who is an academic giant but a political dwarf. He once
> claimed that he was an ANC member without a valid membership. How can
> a person be a member without a valid membership? May be ?akabhadlanga?
> to quote Terror Lekota.
>
> Bongani Hanise
>
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