What i get from you comrades is that you all have not gone through the National Planning Commission which has most if not all the problem areas you have identified
Remember that it is now open for submission and this National Planning is ours and part of the Polokwane resolutions. The CU has tried to facilitate and introduce this holistic approach of the Planning Commission (and other issues) so that we can debate them and comrades can go to their respective branches and debate these issues further but none of you comrades were or was interested to talk about issues that affect our country. (just check responses when its items/issues about individuals) we can not just talk or debate for the sake of debating but we need to link whatever we are doing to Resolutions of our movements (ANC, SACP & COSATU) and NDR. as the Governing party we need to take part and not leave things to chance or Capitalist Media and NGOs to push our agenda, as such decisions will reflect their views. Its not too late and we also have NHI and other interventions by our Government we are quite about. We can not elect leaders and then we don't participate to whatever we mandated them to do, as this leaves a vacuum for the Capitalist to manipulate the processes while we talk individual politics, in fact i think it is their strategy to keep us occupied with useless debates and leave important issues to them (like a dog busy with a bone without meat) while important decisions are taken. "The point is to change the world" to be continued... Sibusiso On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Thobile Maso <[email protected]> wrote: > *Comrade Kwena* > > *Also* > > It seems that our concentration sometimes is more on urban and not > shifting our direction more to rural development, in > bulding up cooperatives, forming red brigades, establishing agricultural > light industries in the villages and revive the agricultural colleges, I > take it that, the more demands of houses in urban areas is caused by the > exodus > of rural people to look for work in towns, young and old. > > Thinking loud > > *I agree with your input below* > > * *TMSO > > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Mathatho, Kwena (GPDID) < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Cde Gift, >> >> You are echoing very relevant sentiments. Towards the SACP 2nd Special >> National Congress, one of the internal discussion papers echoed similar >> concerns, in more or less the same tone. Accordingly, some excerpts in >> the papers says, >> >> >> "Formally, we now have a unitary SA and a single citizenship where we >> all have rights of free mobility and access. We have formally abolished >> group areas, ethnic zoning, influx control, labour preference areas, >> curfews and Bantustans. But what was once actively planned by >> apartheid's architects to control the location and mobility of the black >> majority is now >> perpetuated on "automatic pilot":" >> >> In that, >> >> "Exorbitant land and property prices in favourable localities, for >> instance, are much more prohibitive barriers to entry for the largely >> black urban and rural working class and poor than any apartheid era >> pass-office functionary" >> >> Further that, >> >> "...the perpetuation of dormitory (and informal) township settlement >> patterns, >> distant from work, and from quality educational and major public service >> resources. The 3.1 million RDP houses we have built over the past 15 >> years >> have unintentionally reinforced the reproduction of this spatial >> inequality." >> >> As a results, >> >> "The combined impact of all of these spatial factors (many of which have >> been accelerated in the post-1994 period) have compounded and entrenched >> monopoly capital's hegemony in our country, while reproducing systemic >> spatial (and still excessively RACIALISED) inequality." >> >> In other words, what apartheid has accomplished, is perpetuated and >> continued in a democratic dispensation by way of "automatic pilot"(i.e, >> market forces). >> >> Kwena >> >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> [email protected] >> Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 6:12 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [CU] Housing >> >> Cde, >> >> Housing has become a very serious problem not only for SA but many >> African countries. Land has become so expensive that only the elites are >> able to afford. On a daily basis our people are retrenched. Those who >> are employed are on casual basis. >> >> All these point to one thing: in the near future only a few will be able >> to afford to buy houses or land on which to build. >> >> Why is the land of our forefathers become so expensive that the majority >> of us cant afford? What can be done to make sure that land becomes >> affordable? Surely government cant afford to build all of us RDP houses. >> We have resorted to waiting for RDP houses then build our own on the >> land provided. >> >> What could be the the everlasting solution? >> >> >> -- >> 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] >> >> >> -- >> 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] >> > > -- > 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] > -- You are subscribed. 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