Lesetja Diphoko
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-----Original Message----- From: "Setja Diphoko" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:10:58 To: CU<[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CU] I have no fear of talking. I fear no one in the world. Theymust be beaten into it. Cdes and VC, Here comes Comrade Thapelo, brave. . .very brave indeed! Somebody had to irritate the sore. The 1996 project was a problem itself and had to be doctored, no one was better positioned than Comrade President Zuma to decelerate TM and his class. Come 2012 the 1996 project must be given a chance, comrades let me remind you that under Comrade TMs administration government was not accessible to the people, Pres Zuma brought it back where its suppose to be in terms of a people orientated government. But now we need a government that is not marred by scandals, I am not insinuating that the Cde Zuma is scandalous- my point is "Every Tom and Dick when they think of throwing a scandal at the MDM they think of Comrade President Zuma. The truth needs to be told, we are not Career Politicians like Terror Lekota and Patricia! The truth needs to be told, Policy is policy. If Comrade Blade derails we must caution him, If Cde Dominique derails we must caution him, this must must be a real MDM. We are not here to farm "Wealth" but here to chart our way forward in terms of claiming our rightfull place. Comradely yours Lesetja Diphoko "Sent via my BlackBerry" -----Original Message----- From: Thapelo Tselapedi <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:30:09 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CU] I have no fear of talking. I fear no one in the world. They must be beaten into it. I think the question is now whether the Polokwane project requires Zuma? No doubt the project would be contested by remnants of the 1996 class trajectory after Polokwane, but the other critical question, for me, is whether these remnants have been given a clear policy alternative to their economic prescriptions? Has the project been able to assert itself on the state and make inroads in the economy? On the flip side, has three years been enough? I really dont believe we can divorce policy from leadership...its not like we have measures to ensure that state leadership toes the party line. The disjuncture between the state and the party is stark and points to the absence of measures. But then perhaps the state does not belong to the ANC. Sad, reality is that sometimes its as if the majority, and the popular thrust/mandate given to the ANC is just not felt in this country. Its like we dont have a popular government...one is sometimes left wondering where the majority are....except in the streets protesting against the very "popular government" we all voted for. Has Zuma provided leadership in a Bonapartist state... On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Dominic Tweedie <[email protected]>wrote: > > [image: Mail & Guardian] > > > *Cosatu leaders lock horns over Zuma * > > > *Mmanaledi Mataboge and Matuma Letsoalo, Mail & Guardian, Johannesburg, 10 > June 2011* > > Union federation Cosatu is expected to make a decision at its next central > committee meeting on whether to back the re-election of Jacob Zuma as ANC > president in 2012. > > This comes as Zuma's support within the alliance appears to be waning, with > the ANC Youth League leading the charge to replace him with his deputy, > Kgalema Motlanthe. > > Although Cosatu was one of the key ANC allies to push for Zuma to replace > Thabo Mbeki as ANC president in 2007, the federation has in recent months > become one of the fiercest critics of Zuma's leadership style in both > government and the ruling party. > > In an interview this week the federation's general secretary, Zwelinzima > Vavi, said Cosatu was unhappy with the ANC-led government because of its > poor performance, particularly with regard to job creation and in combating > corruption. > > "That's why we're so critical of everybody. We want the movement, and the > leadership in particular, to pull up their socks," Vavi said. > > "When you look at the past three years, they have made mistakes, they put > us on a back foot. But do those mistakes amount to abandoning the project? > We want to have a decent discussion about that." Vavi insisted that he was > not referring to Zuma as an individual. > > Vavi and certain leaders of Cosatu's affiliates, including Irvin Jim of > metal union Numsa and Thobile Ntola of teachers' union Sadtu, have been > accused of opportunistically criticising the Zuma-led ANC and government. > > Other Cosatu union leaders, notably National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) > general secretary Frans Baleni and Cosatu president Sdumo Dlamini, are seen > as being closer to Zuma and his strong left arm, South African Communist > Party general secretary Blade Nzimande. > > *Raising the issue* > > Speaking to the Mail & Guardian this week, Baleni launched a veiled attack > on Vavi and Jim for wanting to push Cosatu affiliates to support Zuma's > removal. "It can't be that when some are happy we must smile and when they > are angry we must be the same," Baleni said, without mentioning names. > > Baleni said NUM had raised the issue that Cosatu should be careful about > how it chooses leaders. "Some who didn't understand us then are now changing > their tune," he said. > > The faction that was strongly behind Zuma in 2007 was now disintegrating, > said Baleni. "People had certain expectations. They thought they would > benefit. When they didn't benefit, they started changing. We don't want to > mention names." > > Said Vavi: "We won't be blackmailed into silence and being unable to > discuss our challenges as the working class. Where we are wrong, we should > be told that we are wrong." Cosatu, he said, would communicate fearlessly > what it believed. > > "When we think the leadership is not tough on corruption, as we believe > now, we say it. We won't run around reassuring people that we have no plans > to topple anyone. That would land us back in the Mbeki era, where people had > to release statements distancing themselves from the leadership race." > > Vavi called the current ANC leadership "our project". "We [workers] are the > ones who made sure there was a Polokwane revolt and that the conference > resolutions were absolutely progressive -- pro-poor and pro-worker." Those > gains had to be protected. > > "If that project fails, our political strategies have failed. We should > push and push for these leaders to deliver. They must be beaten into it." > While voicing support for the ANC leadership, Vavi said Cosatu needed > "ammunition" to go back to communities in 2014 and campaign for the party. > > "I want to go to people and say we've moved from A to B and they must be > able to see it." There was no pressure on Cosatu to take a position on the > ANC's leadership contest, he said. "That's opportunistic and far removed > from the real issues of service delivery. > > "The pressure should be about what we saw during local elections -- people > not having water and electricity." Baleni said it was important that the > ANC-led alliance invest in organisational programmes and policies instead of > giving priority to the leadership race. > > "We must assess serving leaders based on delivery. You can't choose leaders > like it's a beauty contest." > > Vavi has been criticised for communicating through the media instead of > through alliance structures. But he defended himself this week. "The > difference between me and some people is that I have no fear of talking. I > fear no one in the world. For that I've got many admirers and I've made many > enemies." > > Every public statement he had made was backed by a Cosatu resolution, said > Vavi. > > Numsa's Jim said Cosatu would discuss the ANC leadership issue when the > time was right. Numsa's position was always to defend the Polokwane > resolutions. "Where there's a need to criticise, we've done that," he said. > > He rejected allegations that he was part of the group that wanted to remove > Zuma, calling them "malicious" and their politics "dirty". > > > *From: > http://mg.co.za/article/2011-06-10-cosatu-leaders-lock-horns-over-zuma* > * * > * > > > * > > -- > You are subscribed to the "Communist University" e-mail forum. > The group site is at > http://groups-beta.google.com/group/Communist-University > The Communist University blog at http://domza.blogspot.com/ and our > wikispace web site is at http://amadlandawonye.wikispaces.com/ > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]; or e-mail > [email protected] > -- Pascal said "the heart has some reasons that reason does not know" -- You are subscribed to the "Communist University" e-mail forum. 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