Comrades,
as much as i understand and respect that what Julius does in his leisure time is upto him, i also understand what Sello is saying, let us not play the players, but the issues, now let me get to realities. reality one, it is a fact that most of us, leaders in our right do indulge in alcohol and at times sexual activities, i mean some of our comrades have even went on to identify their girlfriends and woman as per branches, an it is almost given that in every conference, congress, there will be some group of cadres under extremely embarasing influenc eof alcohol, now having said that, what Sello is raising to me, is what examples are we setting, when we say, Booze is bad for you to the youth and turn in our own spaces and have Booze extravanganzars, is that not a double standard. Comrades have a tendency of intimidating each other, does that work for us, no it does not, because thevery same people that we turn to intimidate, get out of our ranks and go raise their issues on the street, as the direct result of that, we come up with phenomenons where the public start having a certain perception about us. i am saying this be cause i have been going around doing door to door campaign on some of north west provinces villages, what i found to be existing, i one the fact that majority of the youth sees Julius as ANCYL, not as part of the collective that makes ANCYL, that says, if they were to judge him, it will be a judgement that ANCYL, perhaps, rightfully so, but my point is, we in the ANCYL, SASCO, YCL should be judged as a collective, so that should there be any damage control that needs to be done, it can easily be so. Another issue, is Comrades we turn to rely too much on ANC be a liberating movement and thus the general populace identifying with that, that to me is a short sight because then, at this juncture, we have imaging "non struggle" youth that is influenced mostly by media and capitalism, the challenge becomes to us, how do we evolve to stay relevant and appealing to them, how do we make them see that what we stand for is generally in the best interest of the whole society as a collective, not some few individuals. last night i was in the Unit of YCL somewhere in the capital of North West province, Mafikeng, what is puzzling me, is how fast have be come individualistic in our thinking, for the record, i do not have anything against idependent thinking, infact i encourage such thinking, it is progressive to me to think independently in the parameters of the collective. let me ask, our incoming president of the country is going around the country addressing young proffessional, why do you think the NEC feels the need to do that, my thinking, they are doing that because they have realised the emerging independent capitalism, that in it's own nature threatens that, the aleady few resources will be consumde by the few, not the general populace. doesn't that remind one of the the "animal farm" by George owell, if it doesn't comrades, i advice you go read it.. my submissions are thus, we have said so many time that an enemy is among us, we never really said what is the enemy, i say, an enemy is our is our personal interest and using the organizations to achieve such personal interests, i am not saying comrades should not have intertests, but i am saying, comrades should not put their interest before the organizations, it is normal to have an interest in this or that, but it is very upnormal to persue that interest against all odds, even in the interest of the organization. for me Comrades, it does not rest well with me to leave in the country, were, a clearly politically inactive youth believes that our country's economy is hearding a direction of Zimbabwe, my last words, comrades, stop bittering and bikcering about petty issues, like the fact that Sello was excited enough to mention Julius in nhis email, go out there and work, remeber, "alot has been done, alot sill needs to be done"-JZ working to gether we can do more, we are all foot soldiers, there are no super comrades in thisa organizationz.. Thee Coach From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:21:12 +0200 Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] Re: The boozing Malema Sello you are out of order Mfethu because what Julius does for his leisure time is not of public interest, we gave him a mandate as ANC Youth Legue & he is addressing the issues as we speak so dont use personal vendettas for media entertaiment. From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of sello mafrika Tladi [[email protected]] Sent: 12 March 2009 04:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] The boozing Malema Cde's, What happened to Youth League anti-booze campaign! No wonder why this young man speaks nonsense.Is because he is under influence of alcohol. 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