Tom You know I have been part of those that propagated change in Mahlambandlopfu(Sic and thus married myself to an idea of having leadership of ANCYL in the branch changed from those that for so long manipulated the branch activities for own ends. The subsequent result was your election into the office of Chairperson of the Branch together with a wonderful team of young comrades that gave us hope that we about to begin a new chapter in the politics of the branch. I shall however elect to preserve my views as to how I evaluate your success in what I personally elected you and will only exercise that legitimate and fiduciary responsibility during at constitutional gatherings of the branch i.e. AGM and BGM.
I am however unsure as to what you imply by ‘zebra stripe’ that I am apparently adopting towards the matter under discussion. Yet; whatever that is intended to imply cannot and will not amount to any sorts of justification of occurrences evidenced yesterday. As the Chairperson of YCL Pretoria Central branch am entitled to own views informed by my assessments the developments. You were by the way mandated to attend congress by your branch and I was part of those that facilitated your nomination to the same; however I do not hear you saying that you were not mandated to the NGC? How I know organisational process is that delegation to organisational forums of magnitude as councils and congress ought to be decided by branches. It is truly unbecoming for ANCYL leadership to impose alternative means sought to underpin processes of delegate nomination as opposed to the conventional way of doing things. Unless there is surely some persuading surrounding factors that could have led to such an imposition. This is in anyway despite many other cases of irregularity that underlie this NGC; how do you possibly explain members of Mahlambandlopfu some serving as BEC members attending the NGC as delegates form provinces such as KZN and Limpopo? Certainly some explanation ought to be made to make us believe that there are no rented delegates in that NGC. It is totally needless on your part to single out people booed and mauled in that NGC because all that taken together signifies the total lack of discipline which can be linked to low levels of political thought on behalf of those engaged in this exercise. I am again puzzled by your statement wherein you make reference to influencing the ANC to taking decisions that are favourable to the working class, the unemployed and graduates. You are going to have to explain how you intend to do that whilst you are not in unity with the vanguard of the working class. Yesterdays’ events painted the non existence of unity and eminent contradictions in the PYA. Mao Tse Dung in his address to the youth of Yenan whilst commemorating the May 19 movement reminded the youth that it cannot claim to be revolutionary whilst not united with workers. Are we again observing self cantered nationalist luring masses into believing that they are the solution to poverty, illiteracy and underdevelopment whilst actually perusing the self enrichment paradigm? Surely you must be disappointed in yourselves; there cannot be any form of revolution that those not incorporate the workers! This I say because the booing of the Cde Manamela has in some ways woken us up to the sad reality; that there are some individuals who feel unsettled by the continued existence of the communist party in our society and in the ANC in particular. The man, who was hailed yesterday as being a preferred next ANC Secretary General of the ANC, wrote a damning paper in the early 2000's labelling our SG as 'indicating left but turning right'. I have every reason to believe that he is the same man who sponsors the attitude of SGL towards communist; hence he recently labelled some leaders as yellow communists. The same man hailed is also a known supporter of RG Mugabe and made his views crystal clear whilst president of ANCYL in spite of other PYA structures lamenting on the regime of RG Mugabe and characterising him as tyrant and a man who has no respect for human right and democracy. I had a pleasure of being a delegate assigned by one of the PYA structures to do an assessment of Zimbabwe and its politics early in 2006 and together with as delegates of carious formations arrived at the same conclusion. SGL seem to be simply moving on the same line as his predecessor! I am not agitated by your assertions that myself together with others who may be sharing the thinking are not going to see the light of the day in Mahlabandlopfu and will according not delve much for it constitutes nothing but a threat to muzzle and gag adversity. It is saddening however that you sound determined to silence the discussion before it can exist; yet I am on record saying that members of the ANC in Mahlambandlopfu are not as cheap as ANCYL that you will easily drag to your so called progressive thinking aimed at providing solutions to the ailing ANC. You are indeed going to have advance a strong motivation to have us moving along those lines and whilst you are at it, I am requesting as I did before that you bring to and end to songs that are deliberately sang probably to prejudice us and thus portray a picture as if we are agreeing to certain flawed solutions before we even engage in a discussion related to such decisions inherent in songs and slogans. I am challenging you to a firm and frank discussion as opposed to the yelling of insults and labelling. It is proven that there are no permanent agreements in the revolution and it is accordingly befitting that we must differ especially so if it means that we differ about something we mutually care about. Yet our engagement must be frank and underlined by mutual respect. In his Poem 'I WHO LIVE THOUGH I HAVE DIED'; Jose Marti says " When weighed by the cross, a man resolves to die for the right; he does all the good he can, and returns bathed in the light'. Jose' Mart is Cuban revolutionary and poet who died during a first insurrection launched together with Maceo and Gomez. > While I here your views George, I was mandated by my branch, to provincial > congress and logic will tell you that upon conclusion of the provincial > congress and the PGC, I do not represent my views but what my branch BGM > MANDATED me as Branch-Chairperson. I am a fully fledged communist and we > should tell you ourselves that there was nothing unwanted as the chasing > of > Buti was started by delegates and not pre-planned as what Buti alledged. > Its > not Buti alone who suffer from this tendencies, Steven was also under > fire, > Andile suffer the same. Now if you are to critical here, what is at play > is > the contestation towards National Congress and 2012 Programme. Now if you > have issues with Zebra stripes is your issue. Like we are saying allow us > to > lead not in factional way as you will never see the light in > Mahlambandlopfu > as long as we are still in charge. > > Why Buti was booyed? The delegates from Limpopo wanted David to address > the > NGC as he has no ambitions or he does not habour ambitions but his is to > influence the body politics of the ANCYL. The NEC did not give-in to this > demand as it will be seen to be supporting the factionalism into the YCL. > We > are saying this because we are here to ensure the review and the outcome > of > the NGC favours the working class, youth, unemployed graduates and the > poor > in general. Hence no emotions could assist but only level headed enagement > will assist. > > Now why you find it acceptable that the ANC-SG could apply Zebra stripes > and > is fine and when the ANCYL do the same you have issues. But the ANCYL > constitution is silent on this matter and rhetoric cannot assist in > resolving this matter. Hence it is part of the resolutions for > Considerations for Constitutional amendments for Congress next year. > > Now, we should guide discussion based on facts as what Buti said when > leaving the podium, is not looked at. > > We are at war here, be it for 2011 or 2012 and the posture of the ANCYL > going forward. There is no space for fear. Its either you adopt or die. We > remain resolute to bring radical change in the ANC. The task of the > communist is to influence what type of outlook programmes must be pursued > beyond 2012. > > Orgy of nor orgy, insults will not change the facts of how we want the ANC > to be. In the same breath, we will not allow the ANCYL to influence the > posture of the outcomes of the December Congress of YCLSA, the SACP in the > past special Congress and the COSATU congress. > > Ri ndwani, a hu na tshifhinga tsha magoswi. > > On Aug 26, 2010 11:32 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Indeed what happened yesterday will go down as nothing but an ugly > portrait of how the ANCYL is being bulldozed into mediocrity by an > illiterate Malema! How the so called NGC is constituted is another > interesting observation that not only signals how desperate the rulling > elite of the ANCYL is to gurner support for it evil fated intends. > Branches were not afforded a fair chances to decide on their delegates but > were rather instructed to allow same members who attended provincial > congresses to represent them. This instruction was no incident because SGL > together with his Alie's carefully considered the fact that their ongoing > self destructive and mediocre centered campaigns was only going to be > endorsed at the NGC through the sustenance of flawed provincial delegates > that had yielded their desired outcomes. > > The fact remains that SGL may seem to be winning the battle now, yet I > dare say politics of manipulation can only last for a certain while and > will accordingly be replaced Truth as soon a people become to unmask the > ugly face behind such manipulation. It doesn't matter how long but it will > surely come to pass. We remain intact in our doctrine; the doctrine of > philosophical materialism and opposed to idealism currently be fast > tracked by SGL. Ours is a comprehensive and harmonious doctrine that gives > a man an integral outlook of the world and is irreconcilable with all > forms of superstition, deceit and defense of the bourgeois system. All > those that participated in the vain exercise of booing our Secretary > General allowed themselves to be used by the SGL in hope of probably > employment or tender reward. This they did consciously even perhaps > competing amongst themselves to be distinguished as being the loudest and > thus gain recognition from SGL and his army. > > We dare never to take the yesterday's mediocrity as insignificant. We must > multiply our efforts to ensure that their plot is uprooted in our > respective ANC branches. I am going to continue the work I have started in > my Madlambandlopfu branch. SGL will never go unchallenged and thus > deliniate himself as a king maker of our politics; not at least whilst we > are still members of the ANC! > >> The Times > > > *ANCYL demands Mantashe's head* > > /Young communist >> chief > says it is eye for an ... > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 yclsa-eom-fo...@goog... > > -- > 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] > . 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