Cde Musa, The public lecture was not organized by SASCO neither was it solely attended by students. TUT provided a platform for engagement but attendance was open to everyone. It is then incorrect to blame SASCO for what might have wrongly transpired there. I was seated next to an SCO member who is an SRC member at TUT. This is just an example of the attendees in that event.
Why is YCL not concerned above the intolerance by members of the alliance components in government events? Last year a member of cope was booed in a government gathering and a member of DA who was on the day an acting premier was as well heckled on humans rights day. Is the quietness of YCLSA on intolerance of alliance components members a good thing for democracy? Why now? Is it because the minister is an SACP member and GS? If so, then this is pure nepotism of the highest order. I do not think that YCLSA is rational on this matter at all unless it is a praise singer of certain individuals. Equally, YCLSA should not wage a battle with SASCO using a platform that was not specifically a SASCO gathering. I still smell a rat... Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -----Original Message----- From: "Musa Nikani" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:48:03 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] Fwd: YCLSA CONDEMNS THE REPORTED HECKLING AND BOOING OF SACP GENERAL SECRETARY AND MINISTER OF HIGHER EDUCATION Dear Comrades, I suspect there's a little bit of intolerance and wichhunting happening. I wish to hear the formal response by SASCO on what transpired at TUT as YCLSA has highlighted it has hoped that by now SASCO would have issued a formal statement condemning what happened. The little information we get via this forum from Moituti (Official Voice of SASCO) in which the Secretary General of SASCO penned an article that seek to suggest disagreements on the tactics employed by the Ministry of Higher Education is a limited information for us as members of both organisations to engage constructively; but instead we will be driven towards self Vanguardism, Ultra-leftism and Mr Beanism. If the information by Cde MDUDUZI VILAKAZI on what happened at TUT is true then there was no room or open door policy for constructive engagement by the Ministry; but at the same time, if there was an "ochestrated" booing of the Ministry and Cde Blade as a person in particular then YCLSA is correct and such a culture is foreign at SASCO even when we fundamentally disagreed with the actions of the state in particular with Cde Naledi, we continued to engage constructively and never degenerated to such a low gear. Can both organisations stop degenerating but have bilaterals so that the can be a greater understanding, cooperation and tolerance for the future in particular as far as the firm foundation for Quality and Sustainable Free Education is concerned. Chauvists might exploit the conditions instead of bettering them for our future Socialism. Can we stop this whichhunt and personification of the struggle so noble for Socialism and start to engage. SASCO must have bilaterals with YCLSA so that our members on the ground don't get wrong information on this subject matter of the Ministry of Higher Education. Communication is lekker. Marxist-Leninist-Slovonist: Yours Musa >>> Gugu Ndima <[email protected]> 03/23/11 8:15 AM >>> *YCLSA CONDEMNS THE REPORTED HECKLING AND BOOING OF SACP GENERAL SECRETARY AND MINISTER OF HIGHER EDUCATION* *22 MARCH 2011* The Young Communist League of South Africa (uFasimba) condemns with the contempt it deserves, the reported heckling and booing of Cde. Blade Nzimande, General Secretary of the SACP and Min. of Higher Education on Friday by a group of people (said to be members of SASCO and NEHAWU) at the Tshwane University of Technology. Cde. Nzimande was expected to deliver a lecture as per invitation by the university. We view the persistent, uncomradely and foreign culture as a form of promoting political intolerance and a means to shut down fellow comrades from constructive engagements that can help bring about solutions for the challenges faced by our society. When heckling and booing happened at the Special Congress of the SACP, at the ANC Youth League NGC and at our own Congress, the leadership of the YCLSA took responsibility and condemned these actions, and we will continue to do so with the interest of promoting constructive debates. We had hoped by now both SASCO, NEHAWU and the TUT management would have already come out strongly to condemn these actions. Instead what we have read was a tacit admission by SASCO that they organized the heckling and booing, if not, that they support it, as was evident in their attack of the General Secretary of the SACP in their subsequent statements through their Secretary General, Lazola Ndamase. Irrespective of our collective and united commitment towards the attainment of free quality public education, an ideal we championed when it could easily be ridiculed; we will however never flinch when such legitimate demands are used for cheap politicking within or by SASCO. The struggle for quality public education shall be waged, and won, parallel to the struggle in defense of the unity of our movement, its collective discipline and its paramount traditions of robust debates devoid of hoodlum-politicking. We anticipate students in our country, especially members of SASCO, to rise up from the gutter-politics displayed last Friday. The right to differ with comrades should never be confused with irresponsible conduct. We expect the best in debates from our future intellectuals. We further condemn the silence by the TUT management, and call on them to swiftly take action against the culprits just as they did when former president Thabo Mbeki addressed and a student caused similar disruptions. As the YCLSA we will fight any attempts to try and isolate Cde. Blade Nzimande from the leadership collective of the ANC and that of cabinet through innuendos and apolitical overtones, and to try and wage a war against the SACP by waging a war against the Ministry of Higher Education. We further challenge the cowards who used that platform of a memorial lecture as a way to raise issues they could not win within the SACP to come back into the structures of the SACP and debate these issues through proper protocols. *Issued by the YCLSA Head office* *For more information contact Gugu Ndima* *National Spokesperson* *0767831516* -- Gugu Ndima +27 76 783 1516 -- Gugu Ndima +27 76 783 1516 -- 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. 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