Ei madoda kuzobanzima ngomso, kodwa ke Ncedo and Teriz are to lead this Region, i wonder ngobani ezi deligates zina 41 yearz and i think thatz not gd 4 the yl at all Cdez
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Viwe Sidali <[email protected]> wrote: > Amathole Regional conference of the ANC Youth League is taking place > tomorrow (8:30 registration of delegates) at Walter Sisulu University, > Berlin Campus. What suprise us is the letter to the branches, which > stipulates that no complaints will be accepted, while there is no response > from the office of SG. What also suprising its to find parrallel structures > and the question is how SG will respond on that without the concerned > branches. There is also delegates who are 41 years old, and again no > complaints will be attended to. Comrades please advise the NEC, SG before > this conference, otherwise it will be bad. They are doing this purposely. > The Progressive proposed Top 5 is: > > 1. Sithembela Zuka, who is a Provincial Chairperson of YCL as the > Chairperson > 2. Sithembele Ncethezo -Deputy Chair > 3. Lunga Khumelwano, who is a District committee member of YCL as the > Secretary > 4. Lwandlekazi Mapekula -Deputy Secretary > 5. Viwe Sidali -Treasurer > > --- On *Thu, 3/25/10, DomzaNet <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: DomzaNet <[email protected]> > Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] [Communist University] No Woman, No Revolution > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010, 8:56 PM > > > <http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D4UK2kWf5ik/S6uv1qv7gyI/AAAAAAAACIk/PmKFmIrNTbM/s1600/MortarBoardCU.jpg> > > *No Woman, No Revolution: General Introduction* > > ------------------------------ > *We meet in the UJ Doornfontein Library. The next session will be as > follows: * > > - *Date:* 8 April (Thursday) > - *Time:* 17h00 sharp to 18h30 sharp > - *Venue:* *The Library*, University of Johannesburg, 37 Nind Street, > Doornfontein, Johannesburg (former Technikon Witwatersrand). Cars enter > from > the slip road to the left of the bridge on Siemert Road. > - *Topic: **The Social Basis of the Woman > Question<http://amadlandawonye.wikispaces.com/1909,+Kollontai,+Social+Basis+of+Woman+Question,+abstract> > *. > > ------------------------------ > > We have completed the “Basics” series. The new series, starting in > Doornfontein on 8 April 2010, called “No Woman, No Revolution”, is motivated > by the inconceivableness of a successful revolution that mobilised only half > of the available support. Clearly, the women must be as fully involved as > the men, or there will be no revolution. > > This series is designed to problematise the question of women in South > Africa’s specific conditions in 2010. > > The series follows a roughly chronological sequence, beginning with > Alexandra Kollontai one hundred and one years ago in 1909, followed by Lenin > and the Third Comintern Congress. From there it jumps to the 1950s, the high > point of women’s organisation in South Africa; and then to the post-1994 > situation, with comment on the ANCWL and the Progressive Women’s Movement > (PWM). > > The series then doubles back to pick up some theoretical weight from Angela > Davis and Evelyn Reed, finally ending up with a compilation of Umsebenzi > Online articles on women between 2006 and 2009. > > The argument that runs through this course is that to enrol the women into > the revolution, the revolutionaries need the same kinds of mass structures > that have been organised by and for the working class, such as trade unions. > > But the women of South Africa have been influenced by those who have been > selling an idea, not shared, for example, by Evelyn Reed or by Ray > Alexander, that formal organisation is odiously masculine or patriarchal in > nature. Among the women, some have been able to demobilise their sisters > with this mistaken idea. We will follow up on this question. > > There is not a great deal of suitable Political Education material about > women. In this series of ten, we will mostly have just one text to read for > each session. > > The available narrative in relation to South African women’s organisations, > and relative lack of organisations, is not very clear, especially since > 1990. One finds that the academic work that could have been done has not > actually been done in all cases. > > One exception is Meera Nanda’s *Postmodernism, Hindu nationalism, and > Vedic > science<http://communist-university.googlegroups.com/web/1410a%2C+Postmodernism%2C+Hindu+nationalism%2C+Vedic+science%2C+Nanda%2C+2004.doc?gda=XwYGF4gAAAB4MbH-vDwpNagN2sDR9UlohmuUjtexlADe7DGFge8c6BZfHgCefBTcpJ-jwE_iQ0kplHKkD8ng4I4B3JUKT-R4qB5oVZfHXGrT5bDg4FG2yERgv> > * (2004). Although it is not about South Africa, this fine essay does > cover matters that are crucial to the understanding of South African > politics in general and to the question of women in South Africa in > particular. It is particularly helpful in respect of the philosophical > reversal that happened in India and in South Africa whereby humanism was > sometimes abandoned and irrational post-modernism took its place. It is > because of this kind of reversal of reason and science that it is possible > to conceive of something so peculiarly irrational that it can be called > *“organic > – not a formal structure”*. > > We will return to this question, too. > > The specific introduction for the first session will follow in a day or so. > The text will be Alexandra Kollontai’s “The Social Basis of the Woman > Question”. > > > > -- > Posted By DomzaNet to Communist > University<http://domza.blogspot.com/2010/03/no-woman-no-revolution.html>on > 3/25/2010 08:56:00 PM > -- > You are subscribed. 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