True Ndamase On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Lazola Ndamase <[email protected]> wrote:
> Writing does not need time my friend. It just requires a few minutes to > put down what is in your head. Anyway thanks. We certainly cannot agree on > everything. That would be worrying. > > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:47 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ** >> Lazola is a man with lots of time in his hands...haai uyhabala my >> Leader... >> >> Iyanconya into entle ne lungileyo... >> >> I agree fully with your views (on this point)... >> >> Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! >> ------------------------------ >> *From: *[email protected] >> *Sender: *[email protected] >> *Date: *Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:45:23 +0000 >> *To: *<[email protected]>; < >> [email protected]> >> *ReplyTo: *[email protected] >> *Subject: *Re: [YCLSA Discussion] Revolutionaries do not conduct >> themselves this way >> >> Comrade Lazola you are a man of truth...I salute you. >> Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! >> ------------------------------ >> *From: *Lazola Ndamase <[email protected]> >> *Sender: *[email protected] >> *Date: *Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:23:24 +0200 >> *To: *<[email protected]>; yclsa-eom-forum< >> [email protected]> >> *ReplyTo: *[email protected] >> *Subject: *[YCLSA Discussion] Revolutionaries do not conduct themselves >> this way >> >> *REVOLUTIONARIES DO NOT CONDUCT THEMSELVES THIS WAY* >> >> >> Yearnings of glory and praise are never those of revolutionaries but >> those of pop-stars who join revolutionary organizations with the hope of >> inscribing their names into history books. These and their ilk will never >> join a revolution if it appears to be doomed. They wait for it to gain >> currency and then they hop on the bandwagon. One thing marks them out, they >> are not willing to sacrifice anything in the course of struggle. All they >> want is to don borrowed robes tailor made for glory. I suspect this is >> exactly what Shivambu’s recent articles which cast aspersions on every one >> else but the YL are actually about. >> >> >> Bravery, devotion, determination, selflessness and love are the lifeblood >> that propels the heartbeat of those that shirk all personal development for >> the development of all. Revolutions, rather than bring immediate glory to >> those who abandon their youth, instead result in poverty, incarceration and >> mostly death in the immediate. Many a revolutionary is shunned by their own >> communities, with family members calling them irresponsible, for leaving >> school or work to pursue something that brings them suffering rather than >> prosperity. The media often treats them with disdain, until worker >> journalists realize the importance of their actions. >> >> >> Revolutionaries are careful with their conduct and how it affects their >> organization because they appreciate the negative perceptions it creates >> about them and their organization to the oppressed and the demobilizing >> impact it can have on the struggle being pursued. Revolutionary discipline >> to them does not become a catchword but something to live by. >> >> >> They are well aware that because theirs is a contest with prevailing >> conditions, the act of revolution has highs and lows: times of heightened >> revolutionary ferment and those where there is not even an iota of >> revolutionary movement. They also understand that people’s organizations >> too are imperfect. What else can they be, they are a microcosm of the >> society from which they sprout after all and as a result at times slide >> into backward practices. There are times when one’s organization mistreats >> the best of its cadres and but because these cadres have deeper >> appreciation of the issues they sacrifice themselves for the greater good. >> >> >> They do not square up against their movement threatening to tear it >> asunder to save their skins. Where would the ANC be if Chris and others who >> felt the ANC had abandoned them while arrested in Botswana would have >> exposed all about the movement in order to buy their own freedom and save >> their own skins? >> >> >> The ANC knows that it clearly had not treated MK cadres very well in the >> early 80’s when these soldiers engaged in mutinous behavior, but still it >> was not the ANC that had to bow to the mutiny but the mutineers who had to >> trust the ANC’s capacity to correct its behavior and they laid down their >> weapons and soon the ANC realized that it was not the mutineers that were >> in the wrong but itself and labored to correct its wrongs appointing >> commissions and replacing those responsible and even convening the Kabwe >> Conference partly as a result of this. >> >> >> Had the mutineers chosen to continue with their mutiny, the ANC would not >> have survived exile and would not have fulfilled its struggle against >> formal apartheid. Thus not only would the mutineers saved themselves from >> what they were unhappy about but they would have delayed the acquisition of >> political freedom for many by decades. In the act of saving oneself, a >> revolutionary can put the lid on the candle of revolution for years to come. >> >> >> Clearly faced with what many cadres even those in the fray believe are >> weak charges and rather harsh sentences, Malema and Shivambu show their >> true colors. They square up against the ANC and drag its name into the mud >> for more than four weeks threatening that if the ANC does not back down it >> runs the risk of public attacks which diminishes its stature presenting it >> as a movement at war with itself. These felons would rather wreck the ship >> because they believe there is a problem with its captain and how he >> navigates the seas. >> >> >> Rather than quietly replace him and if they do not succeed and are thrown >> off the ship accept that the lives of those inside and those who depend on >> its success are too precious to sacrifice in exchange for the life of two >> they put themselves first. Shivambu can harp on about how the ANC has fell >> under a dictatorial spell but our wannabe Cassandra exposes his own lack of >> revolutionary blood: the yearning and the ability to self-sacrifice. >> >> >> Clearly, the ANC is in a trouble of a sort. Unlike the mutineers of the >> early 80’s, this time it is not faced with members who feel aggrieved but >> still have confidence in their movement but have only lost confidence in >> individuals, here it is confronted by a totally different animal. It is >> faced with people who would rather have the ANC struggle diminish the >> public stature of the movement in order to advance their own public >> credentials. >> >> >> When they said they will die fighting, I thought they would die fighting >> for Economic Freedom, I did not know that this actually meant they would >> die fighting our revolutionary movement. >> >> >> As far as I am concerned, if Malema and Shivambu are the revolutionaries >> they claim to be, they will realize the folly of their recent behavior and >> mend their ways. They must also be careful not to act as though they are >> saints nailed to the cross for doing nothing but good deeds. One thing >> Shivambu and his ilk ought to remember is that the weakness of the current >> charge does not absolve a criminal of previous criminal activity for which >> they have never been charged. >> >> >> *Lazola Ndamase is a member of the ANC & SACP Ntlangano branches* >> >> -- >> You are subscribed. 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