Cde Sentle How are you my friend, Im a proud cadre to read of such contributions from a member of the ANC, who I happen to know.
Your characterisation of these manifestations of the recent is not mistaken and is not wrong. The current period within our revolution is one that would really separate water from water and make sure that what we had thought was a victory and a common understanding of purpose, clarity, ideological orientation and the history and future of our struggle when we emerged out of that monstrous battle to save the soul of the movement as a whole, not just the liberation movement the ANC. Many of us agreed and were mobilising internally and externally for the survival of the struggle to liberate our people and to make sure the onslaught of our people by neoliberalism is really captured, exposed and annihilated through policy and election. That has turned to give us a mirror on ourselves whether we had really assessed ourselves correctly or were we trapped in the fight against the class of 1996 that we even took every noise that came our way as being synonymous to alliance. The GS of COSATU might be attacked constantly but that does not mean those who rebuke him are correct and or are in the line of truth, it further exposes the lie that seeks to be perpetuated that we can survive with a multiclass character that shakes our foundation and our biasness towards the left, turning this into modern myths. The lifestyle audit for instance has been characterised as an attack, Im a civil servant, I dnt mind being audited. You are a student, you wouldnt mind being audited I hope. Some have problems that are embedded in the accumulationist type of society we have created of dog eats dog to survive. Comrades slander each other just because stomachs have become the thinking organs of the current epoch of our revolution. The working class is not even fed crumbs, There is an analogy in the Bible of Laban and Divas the rich man, who ate and preferred to give the crumbs to dogs than Laban who had to fight for them from Dogs. This is how the working class is used by these super-exploiters who are comrades in light and looters when the night enters. It has never become a problem to be rich but the experience of the Chinese is good for us, no official or public servant from the Communist Party of China is allowed to make money in business, lead by example. Tax evasion is a punishable offence by death even for the most senior leader. We will keep struggling to improve conditions and protests will continue if broerskap is the order of the day and comrades just loot and not produce. Housing backlog is caused by the mere fact that there is just too many incomplete jobs because the tenderpreneur decided to buy a fancy BMW before paying suppliers and employees/ subcontractors. Lets revisit the debate on the soul of the ANC, that soul belongs to the People of South Africa and no one man or a group should be powerful than structures of the ANC. We create our own monsters who destroy this gigantic movement of Pixley, of Plaatjie, of Dube, Of Luthuli and many more leaders, martyrs who sacrificed their lives, some are dead, some are handicapped and some we cant say where they are because of the belief of a people's government building a better South Africa under the leadership of the Peoples Movement. Regards This is my personal opinion On 09/03/2010, morgan phaahla <[email protected]> wrote: > > Cde Sentle, I read your input with interest because you brought fresh > ideas under current political climate. Indeed, the genesis of the problem in > the movement broadly is not about nationalisation debate or succession > debate but a small minority within the ANC, if not moles of the 1996 class > project, driving a propaganda machinery bordering on ill-discipline and lack > of tolerance amongst cadres of the Alliance structures. > > This minority is hellbent at rubbishing at the Alliance leadership and > personalize issues to the level of championing a media frenzy to portray the > COSATU as an opposition and the SACP as parasitically and opportunistically > clinging on the ANC. All of this is done in the name of the ANC to undermine > constructive engagement with intent to crush those who voice a dissenting > view. > This growing intolerance is suffocating our movement and the political > significance of the Alliance traditions. What is to be done? Let all > structures observe the long held set of protocols in the Alliance without > questioning each other's bona fides. > > In the midst of this, the enemy is watching and taking notes to unleash a > fight back strategy in the upcoming municipal elections. If we do not > resolve petty things like this, it would be difficult to march alongside in > deepening the national democratic revolution to have a direct relation to > reality at the grass-roots level. Let's engage, mqabane! > > Remain, > Morgan > > > "Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology." - Joe > Slovo > > --- On Tue, 3/9/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] What is to be done? > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 6:41 AM > > > Comrades it is sad to note how battles or debates for leadership play > themselves out in the public discourse, our organaisation[the ANC] and the > alliance have certainly made itself a victim of the imperialist media and > the public is continously brain washed by this source of news. > > The unfortunate part is dat our own comrades are caught in the middle of > this entire rapture. I have asked myself as to wether is this issue really > about nationalisation n leadership in 2011&2012, but i have realised dat a > huge majority of our membership in all the branches was actually unaware of > many of these things, and one really wonders, are branches really basic > units of the organisation? Though this is our organisational principle, it > is quite notably a difficult task for those in upper structures to put this > into practice. > > Personally i have noted dat brancches r only important for congresses n wen > comrades in those branches r desperate to be ward councillors. > > And recently, there has been a spiral of community protests, which we claim > have been caused by comrades again who r fighting for tenders and depoyment > in the 2011 local government processes, i might b wrong and i should be > corrected if dat is the case. But my question is, what is the state of > service delivery in those communities, are the people getting what they > promised, second to dat is wether are these ANC comrades who are said to b > the chief architects of the temporary 3rd revolution really fighting for > service delivery or are they fighting for an opportunity for > self-enrichment. > > yours in persuit of wat is to be done > Cde Sentle Oliphant > > -- > 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. 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