I am fast starting to beleive that we as African have an inherent characteristic of greed and fictional power. It was us who helped capture our fellow brothers and sisters in order to give them up for slavery. It was us who assited in perpertuating colonilism. It is us who wee impimpis during the apartheid era. it is us who are amused by being "the only African man around the dinner table" to quote Eric Myeni. Until we start taking ourselves serious, we are not going to go far. 56 years ago the first African country got independence and 15 years ago it was the last one. All of these domocracies have not brought much to their people because of our leaders greed, with a slight exception to Botswana and maybe one or two others. That is Tumelo G.
From: Godfrey Segoahla To: "[email protected]" Sent: Wed Jul 01 11:02:39 SAST 2009 Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] Re: Is communism/socialism sustainable? Rodney, what s happening in our country is hurting and it seems that we will never get a chance to try socialism. Because there are people those who accumulate wealth by creating all this social illness. Our people don`t love each other, there is no unity, we don`t work together and this individualism create jealousy, greedy and chauvinism. So either government begin to redirect its programmes towards socialism our people will continue to rush to enrich themselves as quick as possible. Let us start to build socialism on our branch level, stop to talk about it only. Let us begin to save our own community from this scourge capitalism and begin to form ourselves to community that known and respect each other. That is first phase in developing socialism. Did anyone ever thought about this? That working class and the poor are in control of this economy. We buy capitalist food, we use capitalist banks our pension fund administrate by capitalist, our medical aid manage be capitalist, capitalism is on its own created by our own sweat and we seems no to have to but strengthen it because t surrounded us, If we take ourselves seriously and realise that we have power to change this situation we can make it, lets start where we stay, from our neighbours to our neibouring counties. It may work, lets try it. As for education and health this services will be free if all us can begin to work together in creating situation that will support each other in all formations through SGB`s and Hospital Board, the majority of workers are Africans and most of them are part of working class movement. Let us develop community trust funds, community co-operative banks, community agricultural co-operative, security system that will serve and owned by the community, we might make it. Let close this gap between rich and the poor by narrowing gap between private and public services in this country. Give a black child free, progressive and quality education to liberate South Africa. And let us inform those who don`t know until South Africa become socialist state, we will never be free from capitalism, we never be free from crime, poverty, corruption and HIV Aids will kill our nation indefinitely. Matla Magoro Segoahla Legal and Administration Public Participation , Ward Community and Secretariate City of Ekurhuleni Tel: (011) 999 4387 Fax: 086 513 0055 Cell: 083 770 8895 Email : [email protected] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of rodney phetoSent: 30 June 2009 11:42 PMTo: [email protected]: [YCLSA Discussion] Is communism/socialism sustainable? the answer is yes,but not in a capitalist economy.i had the priviledge of having lived (while studying medicine) for many years under the rule of the greatest revolution that latin america ever had,the Cuban Revolution.in Cuba no foreigner or foreign owned company owns land and neither can it manipulate the economy because the govt own and runs everything.in our case it seems as if the Reserve Bank operates independantly even under an ANC govt.hell no.all Cuban citizens above 18yrs are employed by the govt and being unemployed is by the individual's choice.every city has a govt run employment office where you walk in today to register and tomorrow you start work.there are no social grants.it's a worker's State.you are either studying or employed.even the mentally challenged and prisoners contribute to the well being of the Cuban Nation. all those who pass grade 12 are registered for tertiary education and study for free and pursue a career according to their grade 12 results and every tertiary student recieves a stipend just to stay financially afloat.i came back in 2006 to my beloved RSA where i see youngsters doing carwash,crime,drugs,making babies and dying from AIDS daily and this hurts me because it seems as if in Africa a black child will always suffer whether under black or white rule it seems as if our govt does not have the political will to impliment socialism even though our ruling comrades make so much noise about it.i'm glad that Comrade Malema highlighted the needs of our youth on youth day. we demand Socialism now,not later and no excuses please. thanks to Commandante Fidel,Dr Mandela and Dr Nkosazana Zuma for the RSA/CUBAN health project i am a Revolutionary Doctor today serving my poor RSA population in Gauteng. la lucha contra la pobreza sigue(the war on poverty continues). Amandla Awethu. VIVA LA REVOLUCION CUBANA VIVA LA REVOLUCION SUDAFRICANA VIVA SACP,ANC,YCL,ANCYL AND COSATU.NOT FORGETTING THE MKVA.VIVA. Dr Rodney Pheto CONFIDENTIALITY & DISCLAIMER NOTICE This message contains specific, confidential or proprietary information for exclusive use by the individual/entities to whom/which it has been addressed. If you or your company is not the intended recipient kindly notify the sender immediately. Any use or dissemination of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. The content of this message does not constitute a commitment or an offer by Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, except where expressly provided for in a written agreement. Any views and/or opinions expressed by the sender do not necessarily represent those of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality. 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