Pick this up after the ANC NEC Statement, coming shortly. VC
On 17 September 2012 08:23, Fusi Motaung <[email protected]> wrote: > VC, please indulge us: Besides these "ooportunistic" names which you have > mentioned here - Malema, Bishop Seoka, Joseph Mathunjwa and others, who is > the relevant person dealing with that mess? And how is that person dealing > with that Marikana inferno as we speak? > > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 7:58 AM, VC <[email protected]> wrote: > >> * >> Seoka, Malema, and the Marikana murder-market* >> ** ** >> ** ** >> National Secretary of the YCL Buti Manamela, in a speech, yesterday >> described how Julius Malema bought himself a platform in Marikana with >> cash. **** >> ** ** >> Let’s hope the text of Cde Buti’s speech will come through in due course, >> and be posted here. It is briefly reported in the Star this morning under >> the heading “Malema ‘bought the support of miners’”. >> ** ** >> Malema’s is not the only mouth for hire in Marikana. Who else is in the >> Marikana mouthpiece-market that is fuelled by dead bodies? >> ** ** >> One is Bishop Johannes Seoka, as we noted yesterday. Like Malema’s, his >> career was “flagging”, and he was facing criminal charges for corruption >> and assault. Thanks to Marikana, the bad-tempered bishop went from >> near-zero to international interviewee in a matter of days. >> ** ** >> Who else? Lybon Mabasa. Themba Godi. The UDM, party of Bantu Holomisa. >> >> Marikana is a place where outdated has-beens and never-wases go, perhaps >> hoping that the locals will be flattered by their presence, but mainly >> hoping to get national and even international media attention. >> ** ** >> Who else is involved? Joseph Mathunjwa and Jeffrey Mphahlele bought their >> tickets to Marikana. Buti Manamela has details of that process in his >> speech, according to the Star. >> ** ** >> Behind all the showboaters and the grandstanders stand the gangsters of >> Marikana, who are almost faceless to outsiders. These are the lords of >> Marikana's poverty. These are the ones who get paid for delivering the >> audience in Marikana to the procession of phoney stars. >> ** ** >> A different kind of business, for sure. The shacklords do not sell the >> show to the audience, but they sell the crowd to the platform, for money. >> ** ** >> ** ** >> ***VC* >> >> >> ****** >> >> -- >> You are subscribed. This footer can help you. >> Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply >> to this message. >> You can visit the group WEB SITE at >> http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery >> options, pages, files and membership. >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected]. >> You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to >> put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail >> to this address (repeat): [email protected] . >> > > > > -- > > Fusi M. Motaung > tel: 0721207603 | fax: 0865482896 | e-mail: [email protected] > > > -- > You are subscribed. This footer can help you. > Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to > this message. > You can visit the group WEB SITE at > http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery > options, pages, files and membership. > To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected]. > You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to > put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail > to this address (repeat): [email protected] . > -- The Communist University *Blog* is at: *http://domza.blogspot.com/*<http://domza.blogspot.com/> *Mail Subscription*: *http://groups.google.com/group/Communist-University/*<http://groups.google.com/group/Communist-University/> CU Site for *downloads*: *https://sites.google.com/site/communistuniversity/ * The *CU Africa* blog is at: *http://cuafrica.blogspot.com/* (Subscribe *here<http://groups.google.com/group/CUAfrica> *) The *SADTU* PolEd blog is: *http://sadtu-pol-ed.blogspot.com/* (Subscribe * here <http://groups.google.com/group/sadtu-political-education-forum>*) The *old CU site* is: http://amadlandawonye.wikispaces.com/ Subscription/unsubscribing *difficulties*? Mail *[email protected]* -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
