Comrades I have followed your debate/viewpoints/responses on the matter I have raised about the deceitful conduct of Mr Nkwanyana the "Young Communist" very closely. This is what I have found:
It is strange that whereas I'm accused of playing the man/person not the ball; Mr Nkwanyana the "Young Communist" is not accused of the same sin. It is strange that when I decide to stoop to the level of Mr Nkwanyana (in order to discuss at his level) I get vilified and called names. It is strange that whereas I choose to remain a "SASCO member" (in order to avoid personalisation of issues) I get vilified. The challenge of focusing on the person and not the issues; is a broader challenge of the progressive movement. It stems out of low levels of ideological work. One good example is the editorial in the African Communist "Post-Polokwane" issue. Another would be a situation where Mandela would be blamed for selling out the country at a crucial time of negotiations. There are many of these examples. I would be the first one to protect and defend Nkwanyana if he had joined the movement last month. But his experience an involvement in the movement disqualifies him from insulting people in the manner that he did at the funeral. *Uvele wadelela nje*...Thats how best one can describe the conduct of Nkwanyana. And the painful thing is that he knows this; that indeed he was reckless. If Nkwanyana wanted to *raise genuinely* those issues or rather lies he has many platforms in which to do so but instead he chose the funeral deliberately. You see, each time a leader of an organisation speaks in public, those listening must either embrace the message or be willing to join. In other words when a leader speaks in public, the audience must say in their minds: *"This is light, this is leadership, we identify with this person, we can do what he says we must do, we see ourselves in him or we want to be like him, we can even join his organisation"*. But Mr Nkwanyana the Young Communist failed to achieve this. He did not understand the task that comes with being in leadership at that point in time, I want to argue. And these are basics of leadership by the way. One feels justified to punish Mr Nkwanyana and his strange conduct as a "Young Communist" through public reprimand which is normally allowed in the movement. In fact to shame him in public would be a lesser punishment by standards of the era of struggle for liberation. In my writting in this forum. I was dirrectly calling upon Mr Nkwanyana the "Young Communist" to replace the lies with the truth. I was giving him a chance to respond and I'm still hopefully waiting. I'm so democratic to an extent that I want him to dismiss me as a liar too but before he can say I misrepresent him he must also agree or disagree on whether he truly believes in his lies about the previous leadership collectives of SASCO. So he must prove two things simalteneously. I say this because; in my tongue-lashing of him, I have said; would it it be helpful fo him to tell lies in order to prove his hatred for the previous leadership collectives of SASCO? I have said in essence, that he need not tell lies (vague lies for that matter) to prove his point he must just like a grounded budding young communist stick to scientific approaches when debating or raising matters. He must produce facts not fiction. Even at this point I want Mr Nkwanyana or those who defend his strange conduct to support with clear evidence his allegations. Or is it a conspiracy? So I would think I'm reasonable enough to come to this forum where there could be a free exchange of ideas, and ask Mr Nkwanyana to state his case so that we may all respond whether or not one supports this leadership or the other is neither here nor there. The central issue is whether one can produce evidence to back up his claims. Do we as members of SASCO want people to rewrite the history of SASCO in a distorted fashion? I think not. It would be shameful for members to keep quiet when lies are told about things that we all know. If I degenerate the discussion I apologise but I found it at this level as well...Mr Nkwanyana started the debate at this level at the funeral. And ran away without response from anyone. And in anyway in Marxist terms there is nothing wrong with discussing the "subjective" as long as we discuss the dialectical link it has with the objective. In this case, Mr Nkwanyana who is subject of the discussion, tried to convince us about objective factors: the history of SASCO. And in this instance he tried with hude failure; to misrepresent the objective truth. His allegations were themself subjective and narrow with an intention to divide I insist! I want to agree with Herman Vilakazi when he says quite correctly and vividly: *"The main issue at hand is whether all previous SASCO leadership collectives since the 6th of September 1991 to the Mthatha Conference did not serve SASCO well? It does not matter whether the toothless sasco member is true or whether Khaye raised such issues but the issue is before us to discuss. What yardstic can we use to determine the performance of previous sasco membership. Will the congress resolutions juxtaposed with the organizational and political reports in the following conference be enough to determine perfomance? Were we in SASCO between 1991 and 2000 to such an extent that we can talk about the behaviour of the leadership then?"* So according to Vilakazi with whom I agree, it does not matter what I or Nkwanyana says, what matters and what we should focus on is the search for the truth as is. Now that will require a little research about the history of SASCO in the recent past. There is no short cut...In pursuit of truth facts cant be compromised. No matter how ugle they may seem. So Mr Nkwanyana the "Young Communist" who should act scientifically at all times, must just like me a non-communist seek to speak about facts not fiction. Again I agree with Vilakazi, we must answer the question is to wether there is space for engagement and we must answer this question honestly and truthfully. When Mr Nkwanyana the "Young Communist" behaves the strange way that he does, does he encourage free engagement? So at the end of the day we must return to what I see as a profounf question of the day: *when do lies become truth? Is it when one intends to deceive?* ** *I await for a proper debate too...I wait for Mr Nkwanyana to give me facts to debate with.* ** *I remain SASCO Member (Its about the issues not the person)* * * --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. 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