I must say that your mission to try and make us leave the ANC has not worked. the reason is that i have already voted for the ANC and zuma yesterday! As for you and shikotas, you can "cope"! I am the sort of person when his house is burning does not run away but stays and puts the fire out! I also dont blame people for the fire, but i devise a plan to make sure that i curb the fire from ever engulfing my house again. But then i can see that we dont share the same views therefore i will ask you to leave this forum since you have not come here to debate about critical issues but you are here to lobby for cope! We as cadres are not prepared to hear about your cope via our e-mails. please stop it! you are here to bring disunity amongst members of this forum. your issues are your issues and not ours! there are structures within the ANC to address any problems that might arise from any member. there are channells to be followed lakwaANC!
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Percy Malatsi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > STATEMENT BY MLUNGISI > > > > April ,16 2009 > *In 1983 my elder brother, affectionately known as Dubrah or Sporo, was > stabbed to death. He was deeply involved in pickpocketing.* > > Whenever I visited him when serving sentences at the then Durban Central > Prison he would always regret getting involved in acts of crime and would > caution me on the dangers of crime. As a result, at no stage was I ever > attracted to any form of crime, be it robbery, looting, corruption, fraud > and so on. I did not abuse my standing in the community of KwaMashu and the > then notorious L-section where I hail from to revenge his killing, > regardless of being in possession of full details of the person responsible > for his murder. > > When I joined the ANC 23 years ago, I was ridiculed in my neighbourhood, > fearing that they will be the feast of the SADF and security agents. Indeed, > perseverance led to the realization and the correctness of a link between > our social conditions and the struggle against national oppression. > > Under the leadership of Presidents Tambo, Mandela and Mbeki, the ANC > trained and deployed me in various fields to change the lives of our people > for the better. Before deployed full-time in the ANC Department of Publicity > (DIP), I was assigned with creating a conducive political climate for all > the people of KwaZulu-Natal to exercise their political rights without fear, > favour or prejudice. > > I am therefore convinced that regardless of ridicule in the neighbourhood > and by the public in general, I will, in the near future be vindicated. > There are times when you have to take unpopular but correct and conscious > decisions. Joining COPE is one such rational decision, regardless of the > implications on my career and security. It is the most painful decision I > ever taken in my lifetime. However, I am relieved that such a decision is to > preserve our political heritage which I am proud of. I have left the Tsunami > and100% Zuma tag. I was 100% ANC, therefore could not contend with > tendencies. The tsunami and 100% Zuma mentality has destroyed the ANC and I > cannot allow them to destroy our beloved country. Tsunami is destructive by > form and content. > > It has been so painful observing leadership of the ANC in the province > plotting to topple the national leadership in a most sustained co-ordinated > manner even before the 2002 ANC Stellenbosch conference. King’s House > (official State house) was among key venues of a selected few engaged also > in undermining democratically elected provincial leadership, thereby > determining the route the ANC and our country take. This without considering > that the taxpayer foots the bill for the upkeep of the house and those > entrusted with utilising it. > > Why were we accusing INKATHA leader of tribalism and regionalism when we > knew that at some point we will coerce our people to such a dangerous path > to get to the throne, Union Building? Today, people who were a threat to the > liberation movement are darlings of the current leadership for financial > expediency. ANC doors are open to peace-time heroes and heroines at the > exclusion and systematic marginalization of highly discipline cadres of the > ANC. ANC membership is insufficient - you need to possess a company to be a > proxy in siphoning government funds to fund the Zuma campaign and enrich > some top ANC leaders and their cronies in the process. > > A call to scrap the Public Finance Management Act and replace it with > tender boards is a pay-back mechanism for ANC election campaign financial > backers. Again, is it not hypocrisy to re-invent what we regarded as > ditching of public funds to political cronies by the then defunct KwaZulu > government through tender boards? > > I have lived under intense security surveillance ordered by, among others, > Senzo Mchunu, ANC Provincial Secretary, who is virtually running government > in this province. He instructed other public servants, Themba Crosby > Mavundla and Nonkonzo Molai (Magubane) to utilize state resources to monitor > my movements and activities as a perceived COPE member. They are both > executive committee members of the MKMVA in KZN. > > It should be noted that I have utilized in the most disciplined manner, all > available avenue to raise my displeasure on a number of issues bordering on > crippling the ANC. Among others was the Reburial of Moses Mabhida saga, > regionalism and factionalism tendencies, organizational discipline > especially with respect to the leadership and many more. > > In turn, a clique of Senzo Mchunu, working in cahoots with a dubious ANC > eThekwini Regional Chairperson, John Mchunu, employed dirty tricks for ANC > members and government officials to disassociate with me even at a social > level. Such obsession has even reached the business sector. The Mchunu > clique’s fear stems from the fact that lies have short legs, therefore > impossible to sustain. > > The late Sifiso Nkabinde, who was expelled by the ANC and joined the UDM, > would today find a better home in the ANC than in the UDM. The ANC has > stooped so low and has completely lost its moral compass. > > Hooliganism expressed and displayed at Polokwane Conference confirmed that > these problems are now institutionalized. The ANC has lost its identity & > character and was handed on a silver platter by power-mongers and > unscrupulous wealth diggers to all those who have been itching to get their > hands on the levers of power for their ulterior motives. Our beloved brand > was changed into Tsunami. Polokwane was an ANC funeral and we are most > likely to get into the ICU as a people and country on 22 April, if sanity > does not prevail, something which is highly unlikely. > > Both the provincial government and eThekwini municipality community > outreach programmes have virtually collapsed and is literally run by the > Mchunu clique as a money-making scheme. They determine government events, > procurement beneficiaries by instructing Heads of Ministries, MECs’ > secretaries and heads of communications in the departments. It is at these > meetings where Stratcom tactics of fabricating lies and disinformation > campaigns against ANC members in government who do not toe Tsunami and 100% > Zuma brigades’ line of looting state resources are hatched. I flatly refused > to succumb to such malpractice, maladministration and corruption. The > disbandment of the Scorpions and a call to scrap the PFMA should be located > within this context. Who are the beneficiaries of our government community > outreach programmes? Who procures marquees, chairs, sound systems, > transport, catering, and advertising? Is it not just a circle of a few and > politically connected? Why does a selected few artists benefit? Why are few > DJs employed as programme directors in these events? > > The formation of the KZN Professionals Network, engineered by a select few > for public servants to pay allegiance to the ANC and act as party moles in > government is a serious abuse and undermining of the state machinery for > party political selfish interests. This notion that power corrupts and > absolute power corrupts absolutely finds easy expression within the ANC. The > KZN Department of local government and traditional affairs acts in a dubious > manner. It reprimanded officials of an INKATHA-controlled municipality for > doing party political campaigning during working hours when its own staff is > stationed at ANC provincial office during office hours without bordering to > take leave of absence from their places of employment. That is impunity and > arrogance of the worst order. Some people are more equal than others. > > Departments and ministries have been ordered to submit lists of vacant > posts to the Mchunu clique, which shall inter alia, fill those posts by > members of the KZN Professional Network Forum, most of whom are their > cronies. This forum also acts as ANC recruitment agency, therefore a sifting > platform for future strategic deployment, something which has brought a > number of Department and municipalities to their knees. IFP leader and Chief > Minister of the defunct KwaZulu government was widely condemned when he > called a meeting of the erstwhile government officials to pay allegiance to > his government. Was it an outcry because we had not tasted power then? > > Already, other officials have been lured to change political allegiance > and, in return, offered lucrative senior Government posts. What is the role > of IEC officials in this forum and again what are the prospects of election > rigging? > > This modus operandi also poses challenges to media houses whether they have > not been compromised in the process and find themselves biased and > pro-particular clique within the ANC and government. The manner how > journalists and some radio personalities have benefited in government’s > community outreach programme has tended to tarnish the image of the media, > thereby influencing media coverage in favour of tender suppliers. In the > same vein, COPE has been at the receiving end. > > Media houses, SANEF, parliament and other relevant bodies should urgently > regulate on these unfortunate practices that threaten the impartiality, > professionalism, fairness reporting and coverage by journalists and analysts > > Having disassociated myself with the Tsunami but remain proud of indebted > mark I made especially for eThekwini populace on the rightful representative > of our people locally and abroad. It was a politically risky but correct > path to work tirelessly against a decision to oust Mayor Obed Mlaba during > 1996 local government election nomination process in order to appoint > someone who could side with the destructive clique in the ANC. Our > international recognition as a city would have diminished. As we speak, he > serves as our Mayor not at their behest. Together with other few comrades, > we managed to save our city against turning into banana city by powers that > be. In this instance, the then national leadership prevailed. Looting would > have been be worse than the current scale. > > We are only pinning our hopes to the democracy-loving people of this > Province to vote with their minds and not their hearts. We appreciate the > good work that the ANC has done in fighting apartheid in this country, but > this does not give it the arrogance to treat the very same people it is > supposed to protect with disdain. The ruling party should know that it does > not own us. The events of the past few months are clear signs of a failed > state. We can only ignore them at our own peril. Our neighbour up north > (Zimbabwe) should serve as a lesson that we should never let a small group > of people decide our fate. We must stand up now before it is too late. > > If Tsunami can soberly analyse Zimbabwe’s political crisis and come to a > correct conclusion that respected cadres such as Dumisa Dabengwa were > correct to leave ZANU-PF, they should in the same vein accept why Terror > Lekota left the ANC and the subsequent emergence of COPE in defence of hard > won freedom, constitution and the rule of law. > > Contact no: 082 5666 781 > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] 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 [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. 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