I requested that the discussion should reflect mutual respect. As a member
of YCL yourself should understand that our orientation is one that
promotes fair and honest discussion and thus resents any sense of
intimidation prejudice. The tone set in your recent email is not
reflecting political growth and depth. Lest you mean I should not discuss
with you. You throwing a whole set of accusation and keep on reminding me
that you are Chairperson, I find it petty that you use that as a ploy to
extinguish dissent. Needless to remind you that I was in a forefront
campaigning for you to become the Chairperson, this I say because I
believed and still do; that you are a capable leader. Just like anyone you
have your own weakness; that of intolerance to dissent and adversity; this
has been a defining character that I am aware since I knew you as the
President of the then TNG. I am however not agitated to respect you less
nor to fear you because you cannot run away from a discussion.
I don’t accept what I regard a rather pathetic comment on your part to
insinuate that I want to lead. This is inherent in your statement wherein
you say you are in charge. Needless again to remind you that I have
pledged my support in your desire to continue holding office so as avert
the ongoing onslaught to your leadership launched by those eager to take
over the leadership responsibility. This was to enable a seamless
dismantlement of the branch into three branch branches as required.
You also make an accusation on my lack of understanding of the long
standing principle of the democratic centralism; which is and underpinning
principle of the communist party and is borrowed by the ANC and used by
the ruling elite when befitting. I challenge you to a discussion on the
extent the ANC and its practices these principle. i.e. the Gauteng's out
gone ANCYL Secretary Pronounced on the Leagues Support for a particular
candidate towards the recent ANC congress in the province only to be
dismayed by the reversal of such a sentiments by the leagues PGC. Surely
this embarrassment would have not been observed had the principles that we
are hinting to; was being adhered to. The PGC had to sit first and he
would have pronounced the decisions of the PGC not the other way around.
In this instant PGC is an upper structure and the executive pronounces its
decisions. I don’t know if you are going to accuse me of low levels of
understanding organisational procedures again? Yet I am not alleging that
it is not been practice partially in the ANC, however it is an absolute
principle of communism.
Again I request that you must not view my comments as being an attempt to
dislodge you. As a member of YCL yourself; must know that ours is a
political school that engages on matters at hand and does have less to do
with personalities; if we were to bulldoze each other with a whole set of
accusations about egos and many other unbecoming comments made in your
emails as hereunder; we might just as well stop the discussion.
Jose' Marti Wrote a poem title ''I CULTIVATE A WHITE ROSE TO TEND''
I cultivate a white rose, In July as in January
For the sincere friend, who gives me his hand frankly.
And for the cruel person who tears out, the heart with which I live,
I cultivate neither nettles nor thorns: I cultivate a white rose.
Regards
George, like I said before the issues that relates to zebra stripes(when
> there are two delegates in a zone, it remove some delagates to meet
> constitutional emparatives). Having said so, the NEC as always decide on
> the
> representation and nature to NGC. It is not a constitutional matter as you
> allerge, maybe because you can't separate the ANCYL to SASCO or the ANC.
>
> Having said so the ANCYL can not be individualised and as such those that
> seek to create parallel structures are always exposed. The YCL like any
> PYA
> componet are not the 10th province of the ANCYL. Our task as the vanguard
> of
> the ANC, defenders of the ideals of Freedom Charter, we dare not spare any
> space to opportunistic tendencies. The qact of humiliation by Buti like I
> said was ocastrated by Limpopo delegates and only when Malema calm them
> down
> they listen. What we are clarifying is that the leadership acted on the
> matter there and there as opposed to what we see in Polokwane. Now George
> my
> political responsibility as Chairman has and will always be to provide
> political leadership of the branch. The unfortunate part on your ego, is
> lack of understanding or appreciation of the principle of democratic
> centralism. This issue applied to even the fact that as the chairman was
> adviced by upper structure to postpone the AGM until dermacation. Being a
> good and an understanding leader, respected democratic centralism of upper
> structures which you seem alien to.
>
> When you have issues of social context in our wards, its us you will find.
> Like I said before, no one will ever loom larger than life in
> Mahlambandlopfu as long as I am chairperson( last one before
> disbandments).
>
> If you think to be a leader of better few thaqn many can realy alter the
> ANCYL posture you are undersiege. The role of the youth vanguard will have
> to give political and idelogical orientation to ANCYL.
>
> You still to keep this task as we members of YCL are watching you. We are
> not going to allow a situation, wherein quantity is put before quality.
>
> On the issue of the Buti, only those in NGC can give a clear analysis of
> what happened and what is happening, not some ghost informers.
>
> Let's talk.
>
> On Aug 26, 2010 3:59 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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
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