Dear leadies and gentlemen, comrades and friends,
Find below 'Denialism, embedded journalism and the EFF: a response to City
Press political editor Rapule Tabane and his friends'. This is the full
version of the piece edited and published by the City Press on Sunday 26
July. The City Press, perhaps because of space, deleted all paragraphs
exposing the EFF and the corruption its leader Julius Malema was embroiled
in as clearly captured in the Public Protector's report titled "On the point
of tenders" (Report No: 10 of 2012/13). This full version reflects the
original sentences that were edited. Some lines lost connection to, if not
also, context, after they were edited.
Enjoy!
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Umsebenzi Online, Volume 14, No. 26, 26 July 2015
In this Issue:
* Denialism, embedded journalism and the EFF: Response to City Press
political editor Rapule Tabane and his friends
Red Alert:
Denialism, embedded journalism and the EFF: Response to City Press political
editor Rapule Tabane and his friends
By Alex Mashilo
In his antagonistic article against the SACP, "Communists protecting gravy
train", published by the City Press on 19 July, the newspaper's political
editor Rapule Tabane starts by labelling the Party's Special National
Congress held from 7-11 July a "charade". He then labels the party "Blade
Nzimande's congregation". Tabane grounds his thoughts in a quote attributed
to his friend, Andile Mngxitama, labelling the SACP "the most weird bunch of
capitalists" (sic).
Let us express sincere sympathy to Tabane for losing a friend from
parliament and the EFF, Mngxitama, who was purged by the EFF from the
parliament and the party. By the look of things, that must have been a
painful moment to a friend. The pain might still be weighing like a
nightmare on Tabane, causing monumental confusions between facts, fiction
and the figment of his imagination.
Besides, the EFF is a party led by Julius Malema, who, according to the
Public Protector's report titled "On the point of tenders" (Report No: 10 of
2012/13), benefitted improperly from unlawful, fraudulent and corrupt
conduct through his Ratanang Family Trust and shareholding in Guilder
Investments. The corrupt tenderpreneuring plunder of Limpopo was one of the
drivers that propelled the provincial government to the brink. Five
provincial departments were put under national administration. Then the EFF
was founded and would serve as Malema's new source of income. Tabane's
friend, Mngxitama, his credible source of motivation in attacking the SACP,
became part of the EFF. This until he was expelled, but not without
declaring that "he will not go down without a fight".
Tabane must read, and from the above too, and engage the SACP if he wants to
know where is dialectical materialism in the party's reports. Mngxitama has
a good friend in Tabane, a fellow who propagates his figment of imagination
as the political editor of the City Press. Birds of a feather flock
together?
Tabane did not read the political report Comrade Blade Nzimande presented to
the congress and associated political, economic and organisational
documents. Had he read, he would have seen that the majority of workers
joining the SACP are unemployed and that the party's membership includes
students, pensioners and employed workers. It is not only a nightmare and
peer pressure but intellectual retardation to suggest that the SACP is a
"bunch of capitalists".
Tabane alleges that the reports, and by extension its congress outcomes do
not challenge monopoly capital. His bosses who control News24 - which owns
City Press, and Multichoice - which is a pay-TV monopoly, both being the
subsidiaries of Naspers, are not blinded by the factional wave that seem to
have gained its hold on, and swept him away from objective reality. People
in higher echelons of policy and management than Tabane both at News24 and
Multichoice contacted the SACP after its congress to ask for engagements.
The Party congress not only received reports on, and challenging monopoly
capital. It was specifically made clear, and agreed that, among others
Naspers' monopoly in the media industry must be ended.
On state power and electoral options, the resolution to reconfigure and
strengthen the ANC-led alliance was unanimously adopted - Tabane was not
there.
Lastly, Tabane personalises SACP and Cosatu decisions, isolates and
attributes them to Nzimande and Cosatu President Comrade Sidumo Dlamini. In
the absence of any compelling evidence, there is no other conclusion than
that his denialism might as well be the function of embedded journalism, or
at least subjectivity.
The truth is, rather than just Nzimande and Dlamini, SACP and Cosatu members
have overwhelmingly spoken at the organisations' respective special national
congresses, regardless of whether Tabane and his ilk like the outcome or
not!!
* Alex Mashilo is SACP Spokesperson
Umsebenzi Online is the online voice of the South African Working Class
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