Hahaha, comrade Gina why are you speaking as if comrade Pallo had forgotten these? Brief us leader please.
Luzuko Buku SASCO Western Region( EC) Chairperson ANC Rodgers Faltein 0786172286 www.lbuku.blogspot.com "The state is the product and manifestation of the irreconcilability of class antagonisms..."State and Revolution, Lenin (1917) ________________________________ From: sabelo gina <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, September 27, 2010 8:44:48 PM Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] The struggle for Justice's right to be a charlatan by Cde Pallo Jordan Congratulations to Cde Pallo, chairing that commission on media diversity helped him to remember many important milestones of the ANC. Aluta Continua. On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Tshidiso Nkhahle <[email protected]> wrote: If you could, thank comrade PALLO for me!!! > >From:[email protected] >[mailto:[email protected]] >On Behalf Of Castro Ngobese >Sent: 27 September 2010 10:51 AM >To: yclsa-eom-forum >Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] The struggle for Justice's right to be a charlatan >by Cde Pallo Jordan > > > > > >Our justice is blind > >Charlatans mustn't worry: we fought for their freedom too > > > >Pallo Jordan, The Times, Johannesburg, 27 September 2010 > >The word "prejudice", the Oxford dictionary tells us, derives from "prejudge", >the meaning of which is "to make a premature evaluation without due >consideration of the relevant facts". > > >Before we had sung a single note of Nkosi Sikelela to kick off proceedings at >the national general council meeting of the ANC on September20, Justice >Malala's >column, subtitled: "Policy summit will be preoccupied with wrong issues" was >published in these pages. > > >Then came a harangue from our wannabe-Cassandra, predicting that the mid-term >review conference of the ANC will concern itself with nothing other than >jockeying for position, perhaps cutting a business deal or two, but will >ignore >the crisis in education, health and other areas of social delivery and will >concentrate on suppressing the media instead. > > >The first edition of The New Age came off the press three days later. A >cartoon >on the theme of Heritage Day depicted a typical South African youth, cellphone >in one hand and a laptop in the other. Clustered around him like satellites >were >the words: "Twitter", "Google", "Facebook" and "YouTube". > > >It reminded me of a policy paper on the information highway authored by Andile >Ngcaba at the ANC's initiative in 1992. > > >Shortly after the democratic government took office, it launched a green paper >on telecommunications. This was followed by a white paper after Madiba >addressed >the International Telecommunications Union in October 1995. > > >Mandela placed a number of challenges before the union: > >"As we head towards the 21st century, the development of a global information >society based on justice, freedom and democracy must be one of our highest >priorities. To this end, I would like to formally table for discussion at >Telecom 95 a set of principles designed to enable the full participation of >both >the developed countries and the developing countries in building a global >information society: > > * "We should strive towards global universal service in telephony > and >global universal access to the information super-highway; > > * "The expansion of the global information infrastructure should > be based >on partnership, and on rules of fair competition and regulation, at both >national and international level; > > * "The information revolution should be geared towards enhancing > global >citizenship and global economic prosperity; > > * "A diversity of paths towards the achievements of national > information >societies should be respected; > > * "The evolution of policy for the development of an equitable > global >information society should be co-ordinated internationally to ensure the >sharing of information and resources; > > * "The education of young people with regard to the skills needed > for >living in an information society should be prioritised." > > >Talk of "heritage" usually refers to the past, but rarely our recent past. >South >Africa's recent past includes the information and communications revolution >that >has swept our country, along with the rest of the world, since 1994. > > >South African youths who have the discretionary funds, like their counterparts >in the rest of the world, ride the information highway thanks to the >implementation of ANC government policies that arose from those initiatives. > > >Today, any South African who has access to an information and communications >network can download and read a daily newspaper from as far afield as Omea, in >Sweden's Arctic circle, if he wants to. Those who wish to can enter into >interactive conversations with virtual friends in the farthest point of >Hokkaido, Japan; exchange music, videos, films and anything else that can be >digitised with others in Tahiti, Shanghai, Anchorage or London. > > >The coming of The New Age was received with scepticism. > >"If the business model doesn't work, will they make this thing sustainable in >a >different way, and on what basis would that be? Would that be a political >basis?" asked Rhodes University's Professor Guy Berger. > > >Anton Harber, of Wits University, called it "a healthy addition to the mix of >voices" but said it was important that "they are clear and open about where >they >are coming from". > > >There were the usual hysterical voices: "South Africa's Pravda? Or, a new >Citizen newspaper, a la Connie Mulder and Eschel Rhoodie? Watch carefully that >not a cent of taxpayers' money finds its way into funding this ANC party >mouthpiece." > > >There was the unspoken suggestion that something sinister was afoot. > >Yet politically aligned newspapers are the norm in virtually all democracies. > >"It is a commercial venture, 200%. That is why we took the top commercial, >most >successful, most award-winning company, Times of India, as a partner. They >would >not invest if it were not commercial," owner Atul Gupta tried to explain. > > >Today, South Africa's airwaves are shared by hundreds of new commercial and >community radio stations. Free-to-air television is no longer an SABC >monopoly. >All owe their existence to the policies of the ANC-led government. > > >The ANC that Malala claims will "... shut down the media" is clearly one of >his >imagining, or inspired by the fumes at Apollo's temple. > > >At the national general council meetings I rubbed shoulders with seasoned >veterans in their 70s and 80s, now all grey-haired and the worse for the tough >years. > > >But I also exchanged greetings with a man we once called "Little Moss". He was >in his late teens, a 1976 "stone thrower", when I first met him. I had drinks >with a comrade, 20 years my junior, who is still recovering from the effects >of >brutal torture. A woman I had nicknamed "Mmathantisi", after the famous >warrior >queen, greeted me warmly. Another, now an adult union activist, had been >detained and tortured during the 1980s. > > >Along with hundreds of their peers, they had sacrificed their youth to fight >for >freedom. > > >This is the ANC I know. Thanks to their efforts, today Malala enjoys the >freedom >to insult them with impunity in wordy, self-righteous columns in The Times, >certain that he won't spend that night in prison. > > >But don't despair, Little Moss; we were fighting for the untrammelled right of >savants and charlatans to express their opinions freely! > > > * Jordan is a former Minister of Posts, Telecommunications and >Broadcasting and a senior member of the ANC > > >From: >http://www.timeslive.co.za/opinion/article677175.ece/Our-justice-is-blind > > > > > >-- >You are subscribed to the "SOS Relay" e-mail discussion forum of the “SOS - >Support Public Broadcasting” campaign. >To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] or send >an >e-mail to [email protected] "Unsubscribe from SOS Relay" in the >message. 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