Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:29:59 +0200
Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] My viewpoint to a viewpoint by comrade Ngoako
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Two Centres of power a receip for disaster
The 2009 Eastern Cape provincial congress of the ANC pronounced itself on the
question of two centres of power. Correctly so, the conference recommended for
comrade Pumullo Masualle, the newly elected ANC Chairperson, to ascend to the
highest office in the province as Premier. This decision was informed by the
fact that we needed change both within the ANC and the provincial government.
To ensure this change, bold and decisive steps will have to be taken.
One notes the pronouncement made by the ANC NEC to retain the current cabinet
as is. It is my considered view that such a state of affairs will create more
tensions than unity. The example is the decision that must be made regarding
the Fleet management in the provincial government. The Premier seems to be
delaying to make a final decision on this matter even when the ANC and its
allies have pronounced on what needs to be done on this matter.
When the province was divided on who should become the premier between Mcebisi
Jonas and Pumullo Masualle, a compromise candidate was proposed. That led to
Noxolo Kiviet becoming premier of the province. The understanding for many of
us was that the provincial conference will settle that debate once and for all
by electing one of these two comrades as chairperson, and by extension Premier.
The provincial ANC conference has spoken and its resolutions must be respected.
Whilst we must ensure that there is unity in the ANC, we also need to do that
within the context of resolutions and aspirations of the Congress delegates, as
they represent the feelings of the majority in the province. The ANC NEC must
be able to strike a balance between its powers to decide on the premier
candidate, and the political significance of the voice of ANC branches, as the
latter constitute the basic political force.
Accordingly, there is nothing untoward in reshuffling the provincial
government to reflect change in the ANC provincial leadership. That would be
consistent with the stated intention of the Polokwane conference and the recent
provincial conference to do away with two centers of power. The Eastern Cape
Province in particular can ill afford to have two centres of power. Any attempt
to perpetuate the two centres of power will create a situation where the ANC is
castrated from influencing the policy and political direction of the provincial
government.
The decision to reshuffle Cabinet in the provincial government must not be
compromised by nursing the feelings of certain individuals over principle and
interests of the people in the Eastern Cape province. The new leadership must
be given space to exercise its democratically conferred authority without let
or hindrance, but within the political oversight of the NEC.
Mbasa Metuse
ANCYL
Centurion Branch
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Kanego, Clarence Thete <[email protected]>
wrote:
When we say there is what is called NEW TENDENCY! in the movement, we refer to
tendedcies like this ones which Cde Ngoako reflects since he intentionally
divorces NDR from Class Struggle which means that he believes the working class
and the poor must watch the Bourgeoisie Regime runs government! I surely agree
with Cde Oupa on his response and that of Cde Alex Mashilo as well. We need to
expose this tendencies which are synonimous to that of the 1996 Class Project!
Amandla!
Cde Kanego Thete
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Oupa Msiza <[email protected]> wrote:
One has gone through the piece by one of the martyrs of our liberation struggle
comrade Ngoako Ramahlodi in the recent ANC today in which he enters what is now
the debate about what really constitute the strategic political centre of
power. This debate is important and one would want to entertain it in the
context of what comrade Ngoako is raising and linking it with the national
democratic revolution of our masses. it is apparent that our understanding or
interpretation of the NDR atleast in the broader liberation movement is not
uniform and yet the the concept and the political program has been and still is
the same which is the NDR. But what it informs this diverse interpretations of
the same program? Is it based on historical facts or simply informed by our new
interests that we harbour as different class forces. If the latter is anything
to go by then it means our interpretation of the NDR is patently wrong
therefore lets resort to the former the interpretation of the NDR the one which
is based on historical facts such as the historical perspectives as
encapsulated in the the strategy and tactics of the ANC and as recently adopted
in Polokwane which clearly defines what the NDR is and what it seeks to
achieve. The is also the interconnectedness between the NDR and the historic
Native Republic Thesis of 1928. that supported the bourgeoisies national
liberation movements such as the ANC at the time not withstanding the
transformation of the ANC that among others culminated into the historic
adoption of the freedom charter in 1955 by the congress movement that comrade
Ngoako has also cited and the Morogoro conference of 1969 which in its resolves
largely favored the socialist revolution. Central to the NDR there are what the
strategy and tactics of the ANC characterizes as the motive forces and
principal motive forces respectively. In terms of the strategy and tactics the
motive forces are those that stand to benefit from the achievement of the NDR
which is the black people in general, the africans in particular and lastly the
working class and the poor but the working class and the poor is not just the
motive force but the principal motive force of the NDR and this is the point
that comrade Ngoako totally ignores. Furthermore he erroneously and wittingly
or unwittingly isolate the class struggle from the NDR as a separate struggle
that should be fought separately by the working class and this is where i
sharply disagree with comrade Ngoako. Comrades this is quite shocking to say
the least one really wonders if this is a vulgarization or a deliberate
distortion and the falsification of the history of the national democratic
revolution by a struggle veteran.
Mpumalanga bolshevic.
comrade Oupa Msiza.
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