On a high level. The secretary's offices is responsible for organisational work, while the office of the chair does political work. The secretary has an internal focus, while chair has outward focus. In corporate world the Secretary's office would be the GM of operations while the Chair would be an executive chairman. Meaning the secretary has an inward looking role and ensures that branch is able to execute is constitutional responsibilities. Viz. BEC meetings, BGMs, has and sticks to its POA and all members are recorded and inducted. In a nut shell, the secretaries must ensure that the branch remains in good standing.
The chairperson is to provide strategic political leadership. She must be able to study and properly articulate the branches view in any and all forums. Inc. Zonal, regional and alliance meetings. Internally the chair must assist in marrying the political challenges with an organisational response with the secretary. -----Original Message----- From: howard matjomane <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:01:07 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] What is Branch SG Role My understanding is that the SG would much deal with the administrative functions e.g membership management,correspondence,calling BEC meetings,arranging venue which ofcourse would be in between BEC meetings or General meetings.Unless the General meeting\BEC sitting decides otherwise SG still his/her discretion to deploy delagates,Decide Venue,time and all logistics. Issue of consultation ,My take is that consultation does not means a meeting between the chairoperson and secretary but means to keep the Head which is chairperson in the loop of what is happening though ANC is not quite clear about this which in most results in either Chair controlling the branch or the serious dissagreement with the secretary.Different branches works differently but in a situation where there is advance comrades that is whre you encounter procedural problems and unfotunately the Political induction in most cases does not include this core chapter. Some branches if not all of them have no guidelines in terms of verification of credentials,copy of membership some accept but some just work without. But i'm against the issue of everytime things be discussed in BEC whereas you have got officials to do the job.Remember the concept of Democratic Centralism-Democracy in discussion and centralism in carryout the views of majority balance between the two is quite important we must avoid too much democracy and as well as too much centralism. Well correction are welcome. Howard On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Morato Phelad <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > Cde's, > > May you assist in this regards,I want to find out the role of Branch SG > > and what it means by consultation with the Branch Chair. > > Is the SG responsible for organising the meetings and venues does he/she > > had to consult or inform chair of the meeting or should they sit down and > > discuss the venue the time or everytime when BGM is called the BEC must > > sit down.Whose responsibility is with regard to credentials and > procedures for BGM. > > Can you guys assist within the culture of the ANC. > > > > Please let's discuss this > > Thanks > > Morato > > > > > > > > For super low premiums, click here http://home.webmail.co.za/dd.pwm > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > South Africa's premier free email service - www.webmail.co.za > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > For super low premiums, click here http://home.webmail.co.za/dd.pwm > > -- > 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. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to > this address (repeat): [email protected] . > -- 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. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . -- 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. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
