Comrades, *The conspiratorial vilification and slander against Cde. Maimela must stop! *
We cannot allow ourselves to stoop so low as to discuss personages. Those of you who continue to do so, may be loosing sight of our strategic objective and historical mission as a broader movement. Of late, since the Orbamania, there is a disturbing phenomenon in our public discourse. Increasingly, we are experiencing 'Americanisation of South African politics". Media, has equally fuelled this phenomenon by sensationalising in an uninformed manner, the romantic history of President Montlante. In doing, so, we asked: What has romantic history of the State President has to do with his performance in the public office? In this, the media was unable to make the connection since none exist. If we continue to behave in this manner, questioning one's political borna fide, we will loose focus, like the media has. These kind of politics for me, falls squarely in the nexus of inability, by some amongst us, to appreciate the structure and agency debate. As Marxist Leninist (assuming that most of you are, by virtue of being members of the SACP & YCL), we should not commit the errors of the Neo-Marxists and revisionists of the 1970s, who were so fixated on the agency as their point of reference to interpret political conjuncture. Necessarily, without being prescriptive, there are myriad of topics this forum can discuss other than personages. We are not in the business of creating 'cult of personalities, neither are we in the business of encouraging animosity amongst cadres and political vendettas against this or other individuals. Some of us, have served the democratic movement at various levels including in the institutions of higher learning and in the labour movement. Those amongst us, who, by virtue of their insecurities resorted in questioning our credentials - we simply inform them that - they, in their individual capacities, or as part of the faction, cannot possess monopoly of wisdom to make a determination about our record. We, without fear of contradictions, informed our detractors, that only history can judge us. and this, after all is said and done, is yet to happen. We will urge all sober cadres, to refrain from personal mudslinging against Maimela and others and engage on real discourse partaning to material conditions and challenges facing society. When our revolutionary conscience have deserted some amongst us, those cadres will be advised to read, Che Guevara's text, "Becoming A Young Communist". Last week, during my discussion with National Secretary, Buti Manamela, at Cde Castro's birthday party in Soweto, within the context of the emerging strange phenomenon of character assassination in the movement, I urged him to make it compulsory to all YCL political schools to use this. The National Secretary, indeed concurred that he will take my proposal and raised it within proper structure structures for implementation. In the final analysis, Guevara's text, will help cadres to conduct themselves in the highest disciplined manner, politically. Comradely, Mzwakhe cde. G Mbatha On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Maimela,David (GPDPR) < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Senzo > > > > I have not been taking part in the discussions of the forum because of > exactly what you have just done: Writing wrong, distasteful and > inappropriate things. > > > > I have received calls from comrades congratulating me for saying what I > said about myself, my Presidency and the collective/s I led with. The > comrades appeared very sincere to me and I accept their positive comments > about my posting on the forum. And I’m grateful indeed. > > > > However, with your comment two things are very very wrong. And I mean very > wrong and distasteful and unnecessary. I need to correct them lest members > believe what you wrote. > > > > First, nothing in my posting says my job is threatened. It is not a > subject, a concern, it is simply not there. As to why you say this only you > know. All I can say is that its strange that my job security which is > professional public service seems to you; to lie in the hands of a person or > people outside the institution I work for; that is institution being > government. It’s very strange my comrade of you. How legal would that be, > how sensible would it be, how constitutional would it be and how just would > it be that such a thing happen in a democracy like ours? > > > > Second, nothing in my posting seem to suggest directly or otherwise that I > know “SASCO MEMBER”. Therefore as to why you think I must talk to him or her > I remain flabbergasted. > > > > I’m really shocked that you can say such things. > > > > I never want to be the centre of discussion. I don’t think I’m that > important. I only made reference to my person only because one cannot > separate the previous Presidency of SASCO from me as a person. But it was > not meant to be a clarity that I provide about David per se. My going at > great lengths to explain my history in the movement was merely to highlight > the tasks I was given at each moment since many believe that the revolution > starts and ends with them. > > > > Please don’t say such things again. You make some of us shy away from such > forums. Its embarrassing to say the least. > > > > David > > > > > > > > > > > Disclaimer: > > This message may contain confidential information and is intended only for > the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not > disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender > immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete > this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be > secured or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, > destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. 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