Cde Thembinkosi and comrades,
It is not o.k. to say that COSATU may criticise the Alliance, but that
the Alliance may not criticise COSATU.
Comrades who do not like the sight of the GS of COSATU and the leader of
the DA singing a duet must be at liberty to say so.
I doubt if many of us are inclined to believe that Mogoeng Mogoeng is a
threat, or a monster, whereas COSATU went so far as to say that Justice
Mogoeng should not be any kind of judge at all.
We are not obliged to follow COSATU on that.
At the same time, I would ask: What else is "proxy", and what is real
about this dispute?
The bigger dispute is the one concerning People's Power.
The interest for the DA, the Institute of Race Relations, Section27,
Paul Hoffman, Richard Calland, F W de Klerk and Pierre de Vos is in
having the popular majority kept under the thumb of a backward-looking,
unelected judicial tyranny.
These people thought that Dikgang Moseneke would give them what they
wanted, or at least would make constant war on the popular government so
as to weaken it and to frustrate it and to prevent any changes happening.
So I think we should all be in a mood to rejoice, and maybe just "let
the dead bury their dead" on this occasion.
VC
On 2011/09/06 11:16 AM, Thembinkosi Josopu wrote:
Dear Cdes
I have a problem with the path we seem to be taking as we seem not to
appreciate free thinking and dissent, whenever people disagree with a
certain point, labels are thrown. now we are made to believe that
COSATU is waging a "proxy war", I dont believe so, to me what is
important is arguments which COSATU has put forth.
I also refuse to be part of those who believe that we cannot question
decisions taken by the President and Executive, failure for us doing
so would mean mean decision can be taken willy-nilly without
thorough consideration. the President doesnt have monopoly of wisdom
nor we are a monrachy wherein whatever the King say goes without being
question. I therefore wish to submit that the ANC was supposed to
engage COSATU's arguments and squash them with their own views.
Regards
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:32 AM, <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Is it populist stance when Cosatu did not recomend appointment of
CJ.Cosatu is on record that it supports leadership of Polokwane.
It was Cosatu that pronounced on leadership of JZ before it was
fashionable.Remember after the then President T Mbeki relieved
JZ,Cosatu structures pronounced and vociferously campaigned for JZ
maybe cde you are suffering from amnesia or you are anti Cosatu.
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*Subject: *Re: [YCLSA Discussion] COSATU’s position on Justic e
Mogoeng wrong - Mantashe
I agree with cde Gwede about the stand of Cosatu on Justice
Mogoeng issue, and that those who oppose the selection of Mogoeng
are against President Zuma not the person opointed, Cosatu must
refrain from this and is not the first time our leaders in Cosatu make
these populist statement unnecesarily, just for them to be seen
deffering with the views of the ANC where such is not neccesary.
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