Well articulated indeed! It's a beautiful piece, and so is the headshot of the author on the page. Or should I say a rose of our movement! I'm grateful that cde Gugu took the DASO campaign head on to expose the deep-seated superiority complex and "deeper fundamental incongruities" within the DA, including lengths the DA will go to create a false appearance of multiracialism for political point scoring. You'll recall during elections, DA used a black woman in television advert talking about how the party installed electricity in Tambo Square, Gugulethu, yet she doesn’t have an electricity connection of her own. It's unfortunate that the vulnerable woman did it for material reasons or with legitimate expectation of some form of benefits and she's on record saying she did it to show support for the DA. That is tokenism of a special type. Remember the mockery of 25 September 2008 when DA nominated Joe Seremane for President in the parliamentary vote to elect a successor to Thabo Mbeki. It's paradoxical that so much energy is invested toward a black face and so little, if not none, to material condition of existence of black people. DA must not be allowed to abuse the new democratic system in all spheres of life, including to use black people as cannon fodders for its political games. In the corporate sector, the DA-aligned cabal uses black people as tokens and fronts to distort our transformation efforts to change the structure of the economy. Thanks cde Gugu for your valuable input. We should take similar approach to influence the political discourse in the country and relegate DA to periphery. DA and white elitist lobby groups alike are on the offensive, and their agenda is clear: anti communist, anti NDR. DA will remain a bunch of rejectionists without a cause and have no moral authority to rule this country in our lifetime. Remain, Morgan Phaahla
"Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology." - Joe Slovo --- On Wed, 1/25/12, Gugu Ndima <[email protected]> wrote: From: Gugu Ndima <[email protected]> Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] The Star page 14 (Opinion and analysis)...ANC Caucus To: "YCLSA-FORUM" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 2:51 AM OPINION AND ANALYSIS (Page 14) Poster’s just more of the “Irish Coffee” effect DASO’s campaign picture exposes naivety and evident ignorance on deeper racial issues in South Africa The recent picture selected by the DA Youth organisation (DASO) for its 2012 campaign has caused quite a stir on the social media networks. The picture is that of a young white male and a black female in a rather intimate position; the tag line then says “in our future you wouldn’t look twice”. Now evidently there is some connotation to the picture insinuating that in the DA or DASO in this instance, multiracialism is the new trend. There are a number of interpretations that could be given to the picture but one which comes to mind at first glance is that the DA is adamant about its new campaign of using black faces to attract more black people particularly those in the younger generation, to the party. It asserts that black faces are more of a PR exercise than actual participants in the broader politics of the DA. This has now disseminated down to its youth formations. Unfortunately racial issues in South Africa despite the democratic dispensation are convolute in nature and marred with ideological contradictions to say the least. Putting black faces on posters or prominent positions unfortunately does not resolve deeper fundamental incongruities within the DA. The cracks are beginning to show that racial intolerance as well as fundamental differences are very much a reality; the DA MP Masizole Mnqasela has accused the DA of “suffocating different views”. Last year during the local government elections, a number of DA members (black in particular) returned to the ANC claiming that racism remains prevalent in the DA. Now are the black faces sufficient enough to transform the DA? How many poor white South Africans who now find themselves in townships such as Kagiso find resonance within the DA; in fact they have chosen to be members of the ANC. This clearly asserts that the DA ideologically fails to attract the majority as the organisation for the people. It remains elitist and affirmative on the constituency it represents. This is tantamount to what the Private sector has done, implementing the “Irish coffee” principle of sprinkling darkies on white foam; using politically correct faces to mislead people into joining the DA. DASO has always been clear on the people it represents even on campuses; they are always the first to condemn the Progressive Youth Alliance (ANCYL, SASCO and YCL) when it takes to the streets to fight against intransigent attitudes of management who exclude students on the basis of fees. There are no instances recorded in history or even the present where DASO on campuses takes up student matters affecting in most instances, black students in relation to financial exclusion inter alia. Is DASO willing to fundamentally change, the answer to that is simple, it’s a NO. The constituency that DASO represents remains the elite white students who can afford exorbitant higher education fees and a handful of blacks befitting their class category in society. The picture unfortunately is distasteful and if the DASO logo were to be removed and an AIDS ribbon with a message were to be placed there, there would probably be an outcry about a white male being put in the same picture with a black female and the advert being an HIV/Aids advert. It’s inopportune that some black people still choose to be used as fronting apparatus in order to drive a blemished agenda of transformation. However we should accept that we will have casualties. One of the core values of the ANC is non racialism, when organisations like the DA were vehemently opposed to changing the status quo; it was the ANC that drove society to transformation and reconciliation. DASO should start by transforming The University of Cape town and other elitist institutions of higher learning who continue to abruptly close doors at black students seeking access to higher education. 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