Now I see the reason why Wits University is failing when uit comes to transformation & the reason is simple the VC & principal is very reactionary & a serious counter-revolutionary who knows nothung about the revolution. We gave him a simple task, that's to transform Wits & even today Wits remains untransformed, a month back, one our members of the gallant student movement, SASCO; was denied her right to contest in the SRC elections until the organization decided to appeal & even strike if that doesn't happend, the worst part of it all was that there was no valid reason why she was denied that right..Furthermore Nongxa is a plain failure & sellout who advances the further oppression of his own people while misquoting history just to justify his uncalled-for & unbecoming actions..Infact it is very preposterous for the VC to even release a newsletter when he does not even know the accompanying reasons with regard to Dalai Lama case.. The next time the VC wants to right something he must make a bit of research because clearly he was misled, which is the same reason why Wits will never transform under his leadership, his sources are always misleading him, he takes wrongdecisions &always falls into the same trap which shows his ignorance.. Regards Cadre TG..
________________________________ From: Sibusiso Mimi <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 6, 2011 12:13 PM Subject: RE: [YCLSA Discussion] MESSAGE FROM THE OFFICE OF THE VICE-CHANCELLOR & PRINCIPAL what happens to the sovereignty of a country to grant or not someone entrance to its boarders? I think Tutu has been praying for the defeat of the ANC for many years! ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of [email protected] [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 10:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [YCLSA Discussion] MESSAGE FROM THE OFFICE OF THE VICE-CHANCELLOR & PRINCIPAL This man was given a task by our leadership to transform Wits University and today Wits remain a white enclave. He must account to South Africans what has happened to that responsibility. Does he also want to pray for the downfall of the ANC because he has failed to transform Wits after so many years and he is afraid that he will not be able to account for his failures. Is it really him who is speaking or it is members of the Senate of Wits that are well known haters of the ANC, same people who celebrated and funded COPE. Archbishop Tutu said that he will be ashamed in the US streets to say Jacob Zuma is his President, why he thinks that he must get special treatment from the President. So far, it is only President Mandela who has a birthday that we all celebrate. We do not celebrate birthdays of current and previuos Presidents of the country and who is Tutu then, did he spend 27 years in jail! Who did not march against the apartheid system! Sent from my Nokia phone -----Original Message----- From: Trevor Kekana Sent: 06/10/2011 10:14:35 am Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] MESSAGE FROM THE OFFICE OF THE VICE-CHANCELLOR & PRINCIPAL STATEMENT BY THE VICE-CHANCELLOR & PRINCIPAL OF WITS UNIVERSITY on Wednesday, 5 October 2011, the day of the Wits protest march against the South African Government for its indecision on granting a visa to his Holiness the Dalai Lama to visit Wits University and South Africa "I would like to preface my remarks by reminding all of us of two commonly used phrases, one in English and one in my mother tongue, Xhosa. It states that: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. The second one is a reminder often used by my late mother, to remind me that I will always be her child or her baby. Maybe there are similar phrases in other languages and in Xhosa it states: Bekuyizolo oku. A literal translation is `As recently as yesterday ..... or it could be stated as "It's not that long ago that........ or "Lest we forget .... Bekuyizolo oku - it is not that long ago that a fellow academic from our sister institution based in Auckland Park and everywhere else, and his family, including a 10-year old son, was denied entry into the United States of America for reasons which were never explained. We were outraged. Bekuyizolo oku, it is not that long ago that Emeritus Archbishop Tutu was refused entry into Israel, and we were outraged. It is not that long ago that Renfrew Christie or Tokyo Sexwale were refused entry into US, and the reason was that they were convicted by the Apartheid Regime under Terrorism Act. This applies to our Chairperson of Council, Saki Macozoma, it applies to the Chancellor of our University, Dikgang Moseneke who was convicted at the age of 15 and was incarcerated at Robben island for 10 years. It is not that long ago, during the era of War on Terror, that you and I and most of us felt violated that we were stopped and searched and asked many questions and we sometimes felt that we were singled out because we looked differently, of a darker hue. It is not that long ago that the Apartheid Regime refused passports to those it deemed no longer South African citizens under its discredited Bantustan Policy. It is not that long ago that under the abominable Pass Laws, those of us who were deemed rural were not allowed to move to urban areas (without permission) or if you were urban you were restricted to Soweto or Gugulethu. It is not that long ago that the Apartheid Regime routinely refused entry to scholars and academics and their sin was that they haboured by their definition, 'dangerous ideas' like being a Communist. It is not that long ago that people of African ancestry from the rest of the African continent were not issued with visas unless they came to our shores as cheap labour. It is not that long ago that John Vorster, in his offices at the Union Buildings, maybe the same office as that occupied by our President, was denied entry to a cricket team from the UK because it had one Basil D'Oliviera, once classified as Coloured, but emigrated and went to pursue his trade in England. He almost torpedoed a visit by the All Blacks in 1970 becaue a team member, Bryan Williams was of Samoan origin. I am disappointed and outraged that there are these parallels between my government and the actions of the previous regime. Secondly, I would like to remind us that, central to the vibrancy and success of the Academic Project is 'mobility', it is 'connectedness' - sharing ideas and information. We were attracted to the world of ideas because of this. We are located on the southernmost tip of Africa and unless we are part of the global community of scholars, we are doomed and we will be left behind. It is frightening to think that it could be a scholar invited to one of our conferences that would be made to feel unwelcome. Thirdly, we owe people like Emeritus Archbishop Tutu a great deal of gratitude. During the dark days of apartheid he spoke out. He reminded the regime, us and the world of those that those that were exiled, that were imprisoned that were incarcerated were our true leaders. e stood up to be counted. How can those that are the custodians of the legacy of OR Tambo, Nelson Mandela, Govan Mbeki deny this wonderful South African, his wish to spend his 80th birthday with his dear friend, His Holiness the Dalai Lama. It is not consistent with our African soul to make a prospective guest feel unwelcome. 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