My BBM is working bra. On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:58 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> ** > Yhuuuu Gugu agrees naye??? Wow Lazola this piece will go to > Archives...LOL...LOL... > > Lazola what's up with your BBM? > > Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! > ------------------------------ > *From: * Gugu Ndima <[email protected]> > *Sender: * [email protected] > *Date: *Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:56:19 +0200 > *To: *<[email protected]> > *ReplyTo: * [email protected] > *Subject: *Re: [YCLSA Discussion] Revolutionaries do not conduct > themselves this way > > 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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