--- On Thu, 1/17/13, Ndinisa Maviyo <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Ndinisa Maviyo <[email protected]> Subject: A COMMON THINKING FROM AN INTELECTUAL To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, January 17, 2013, 11:21 PM This is a response to the piece written by Prof George Devenish (ANC cadre deployment method impedes state delivery) The Sunday Independent, 13 January 2013. Prof is a decorated academic in South Africa whom we have to benefit from his knowledge but unfortunately he has become a common politician therefore it is proper to respond to his article because it was just a common thinking from an intellectual. I was expecting the article to reflect his vast knowledge and as an academic must provide answers than complaint. There are two issues which worries me from the article 1st It is the total misunderstanding of the concept of a cadre according to the ANC definition and 2nd the issue of affirmative action. Taking it from the ANC deployment policy document: the ANC defines a cadre and deployment as follows: The ANC defines a cadre as an individual who has been with the organisation for sometime; has received some form of training from the organisation and is knowledgeable about the organisation itself; has a particular profession gained from within the organisation; is an embodiment of the principles of the organisation, the life, the body and soul of the ANC and the National Revolutionary Movement. T he ANC further describes some traits that can be found in a cadre of the Revolutionary movement which are organisational discipline meaning such a comrade shall be ready to protect the constitution of the ANC and shall always encourages and build unity within the movement; shall be fair, consistent , fearless and be committed to collective and organisational processes. Such a comrade shall combat factionalism, not be driven by material or financial gains at the expense of the principles and policies of the revolutionary organisation and of the masses, he or she shall put the interest of the organisation and people first, shall respect and governed by the laws of the Republic of South Africa. The ANC defines deployment as a process whereby the ANC identify cadres and members with the required personal attributes and relevant skills who must serve in particular key centres of power and in other levels of both public and private sectors. Therefore shall be summarised as indentifying those individual with the required personal attributes and the relevant academic qualifications who are prepared to serve and put the interest of the people first at all times. As an academic he was suppose to know well that what he has written in his article the ANC defines it as patronage not deployment. Deployment is about looking for the best candidates who can implement your policies. The DA, his organisation has employed its members or sympathisers to senior position in the Western Cape; the DA removed everybody who worked for the ANC regime who happened to be black. Were all these officials incompetent and unqualified? The DA has deployed or employed its members to run the public service in the Western Cape and there is no outcry. The article implies that people who are members of the ANC are incompetent and unqualified which is not true. The article further talks about the unfair affirmative action, the article implies that Apartheid was correct to undermine black people who had talent; knowledge and qualified for the job but the jobs were reserved for the privileged white people. As an academic he knows that apartheid denied some of his black colleagues to be head of departments or faculties and to lead institutions. is heyo implying that the appointment of Prof Jansen and other black professionals to senior positions was unfair? Again as an academic he suppose to know that affirmative action talks of experienced, knowledgeable and qualified previously disadvantaged individual. There is a history in South Africa which must not be ignored; white benefitted from the unjust system of Apartheid even today whites are enjoying the undeserved wealth from the sweat of a black man. In simple language when the ANC declared the next 10 years as the decade of the cadre it means the ANC will conduct political education for its members. Maviyo Ndinisa ANC MEMBER (WARD 08) HAZY VIEW MPUMALANGA -- 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] .
