I doubt if trading insults with the EFF is doing us much good. Recovery of our past is a long-term, steady work. I have an idea of it because I try to do it.
When you try to do it (i.e. research, write and publish), you find that you are often confronted with jealousy and envy. Doors do not easily open for you. You find that the field is highly contested. Almost every day there are versions of history published, which are contentious. Let me mention three that I have come across this weekend up to today. One is by R W "Bill" Johnson, in "The Australian", about the death of Mandela. It's pure poison. Another is by Eddie Webster, in the Labour Bulletin, a book review that cooks up a big confusion about the beginnings of COSATU. Another is an article in The New Age today about Thomas Sankara, that makes a whole lot of claims about Sankara that are not backed up. I mean to say that this battle goes on just about every single day. Julius and Floyd are only a small part of it. Julius and Floyd are actually late-comers, and copy-cats. To lay down the revolutionary history needs numbers. It needs numbers producing materials, and it needs numbers receiving and discussing the materials. It has to get rooted in the masses, like the history of the Great Patriotic War is rooted in the Russian masses, and the history of the Cuban revolution is rooted in the Cuban people, so that even though people are trying to make nonsense with our history, they do not succeed. VC On 27 July 2015 at 12:52, Bhekinkosi Williamson Mvovo <[email protected]> wrote: > As much as we know that this is demagogic posture that lives on insulting > our leadership, I think a thorough response that would also teach not only > the demagogy but the rest of South Africa about our leadership is needed. > > Our party is rich with history of the struggle and many might easily > forget. I believe that whatever nonsensical history is being portrait, > revolutionaries must be judged by their present contribution to the > revolution. Many with very strong credentials are now counter > revolutionary. The question is where does a revolutionary draw the line? > > I guess a good response might help to educate many. > > B. > > On 27 July 2015 at 10:49, Moses Tembe <[email protected]> wrote: > >> malema is living in a glass house and therefore, he must avoid moving >> around inside the house naked. >> >> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Alex MOHUBETSWANE Mashilo < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> *South African Communist Party, 26 July 2015* >>> >>> >>> >>> *SACP statement on the defamatory insults by EFF**’**s Julius Malema >>> and his ilk* >>> >>> >>> >>> The South African Communist Party (SACP) notes the defamatory insults >>> hurled at its General Secretary Comrade Blade Nzimande, the ANC President >>> Comrade Jacob Zuma and Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa by Julius Malema at >>> his party’s two years birthday picnic yesterday. We dismiss his >>> rantings with the contempt they deserve. As the SACP, we will not descend >>> to the same level. However, it is important to remember the forgotten >>> Public Protector’s report, titled “On the Point of Tenders (Report >>> No.10 of 2012/13) which found that Malema, through his Ratanang Family >>> Trust and shareholding in Guilder Investments was clearly implicated in and >>> benefitted improperly from unlawful, fraudulent and corrupt conduct. These >>> activities amounted to a prolonged looting of public resources in Limpopo. >>> The plundering contributed to five Limpopo provincial government >>> departments being put under administration a few years ago. >>> >>> >>> >>> The insults by Malema and his ilk directed at our General Secretary >>> Party are motivated by the fact that the SACP was the first political party >>> to expose Malema’s demagogy and corrupt tenderpreneural activities. He >>> knows that we will continue to do so. >>> >>> >>> >>> *Issued by the SACP* >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> You are subscribed. 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