M-Afrika Chargein At last, I have managed to get a chance to engage with u. I've been wanting to do this for years now. And I'm gonna be as candid and brutal in my response to you as possible. Firstly, thanks for recognising the extent of my contribution and others like me in the Eastern Cape for raising the profile of the PAC under conditions of terror and severe repression during the days of the minority regime. Indeed we paid a heavy price for our daring acts with some who eventually held reins of power and influence within the PAC publicly choosing to rather cower in paralysing fear than to join forces with us in defence of the party. Scores of us in Uitenhage died being brutally killed by the UDF (Charterists). Incidents of Uitenhage in the late 1980s immeasurably helped in bring the PAC back as an active recognisable political force, an illustration that th party long declared stillborn was still alive in the minds of the people. We were called by all sorts of names, demonised, ostracised and hounded from work, school, sports clubs, churches, etc. all in the name of the PAC. That experience alone could not but strengthen enormously my conviction and allegiance to the party and at all times. The stance taken by Azanyu to what we saw as a liberal counterrevolution deviation by a certain clique within the party,makes me avowedly unapologetic because that was in defence of the revolution. Ironically, it is you, who initially saw nothing wrong about the deviationist stance, to suffer in later years and being clubbed with us as "Watchdog." We were vindicated and many of the blunders made by the party in recent years, things that forced you to finally part ways with the PAC an establish PAM were long said by leaders of Azanyu, but we in no way breaks ranks with the PAC as I and others continue to do to this present day. For your information, throughout these decades we in our areas, places of work, at institutions of learning continued to carry the banner of Pan-Africanism high and would as I do now be unapologetic in our defence of the PAC and its principles. I've never been "invisible" as per your illusion. While I had not been active within the party leadership structures, my contribution in strengthening party cadres ideologically has been without doubt. A simple random reference from some party activists in the Eastern Cape especially in PE and Uitenhage makes your allegations idiotic. Many leaders of this organisation including people like Thamie kaPlaatjie, Themba Godi, Ntsie Mohloai, Pheko and Letlapa himself can in my meetings with them at personal leves of the important role I continue to play in the party. Had you been staying in PE/Uitenhage area, you would have been the first person to laud me for the sterling work I had done in raising the profile of the PAC, on radio, in newspapers, internet, and in community forums. I continue to do that in my role as journalist. You also need to ask yourself a question as to why those who were spearheading the formation of the PAM wanted me desperately to join forces with them and even offered me leadership positions in the splinter group. You need to speak to Plaatjie himself. These obviously are incontestable facts that you cant digest. Also is the incontestable fact that Zeph Mothopeng died not in 1993 but in early 1990, and that is your duty as the leader of your organisation to correct that. It's even futile to want to engage me naively on the basis of an ill-informed inclination to trash and pulverise people's contributions to the struggle waged by the PAC and in a manner that mutilates the party's glorious history. I'm as robust in my engagement as ever M-Afrika. Next time you respond to me I would rather urge you to engage with me in more relevant issues pertaining to Pan-Africanist politics and broader struggles of the people, than get me bogged down in infantile theatrics. This kind of bevaiour Izwe Lethu I-Afrika!! Mawande Jack Former AZANYU national organisor and deputy president
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chargein Mabaso Sent: 18 October 2009 03:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [PAYCO] Re: Confusion Comrade Jack Welcome back from very long political leave. Ndakugqibela kudala, Son of the Soil, during your disruptive young life as a leader of the then notorious watchdogs within the Pan Africanist fold fighting against the Constituent Assembly. I last saw you very active in Uitenhage in real combat mood. We found you in trenches those days around 1988 (myself, Mgxaji and Mbandazayo brothers) sisakha lombutho nawucithayo. I am not surprise about your utterances below. We used to know you as a destructive renegade. Usebenzela phi kakade, comrade???? Remember the damage the party incurred under your leadership of the 'revolutionary' watchdogs is immense and irreparable, in terms of party unity, image, human lives, etc. Uthe wakubona i-vacuum kwi-PAC wabuya to prey on it? Have you been cleared yet, comrade, of the allegations laid against you during the dark days of Apartheid? Ubo thetha uqiqe sisekhona, Son. We can forgive, but we do not forget. We took this decision to protect PAC soul from political vultures like you. We are still within the Pan Africanist fold, or rather the international Pan Africanist Movement. Thanks nge- revolutionary information you have brought to the payco group. But, do not take advantage of the situation. What is important is that we remembered Zeph Mothopeng in dignity. His son also attended the commemoration as per invitation. Mothopeng family felt honoured by what PAM did to Zeph. Uzakudinwa kuba we are going to commemorate all of them, including Sobukwe. Those who are sent by the enemies of the African people to come and loot the remains of Sobukwe, Zeph, Pokela, and so on, will not get their promised pay cheques for their sinister missions. NB! PAC-Fourie is PAC in form. PAM is PAC in content. Qiqa xa uthetha nge PAM. You must apologise publictly for your misinformation below. Izwe Lethu! I-Afrika! MCharge On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Mawande Jack <[email protected]> wrote: Comrades This is very disturbing indeed. Renegades in the PAM can not be the advocates of the cause and party they had deserted. It's even worse to falsify the date of Uncle Zeph's untimely death. The PAC president did not die in 1993. He died while some of these quislings who last year "established" PAM, like Philemon Tefu who ingloriously accepted De Klerk's condition to renounce violence (armed struggle) to secure his release from Robben Island were conniving with an American imperialiast deployeed Nickel to hoodwink and cajole the party into a pre-arranged imperialist-backed detente at the World Trade Centre. How can he and those charlatans who had ocherstrated the systematic death of The Lion of Azania want to be heirs of the name of this collosal revolutionary known for his "A Nation Without Arms Is No Nation" Only we of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania who despite the hardships and suffering we endured had dared not desert the party no matter what, can legitimately uphold and promote the rich legacy bestowed to the party, its cadres and the Azanian masses at large by Mothopeng. The truth is, it was only after Mothopeng's death that some of those mostly in PAM who chose to flirt with the settler-colonialists and its imperialist backers found it opportune to lead the PAC astray. There are numerous remnants of these elements with the party whose only mission is to corrupt by evil machinations the rich glorius history and political heritage of the PAC. Let's fight this organ grinder. ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mavela Mavela Sent: 12 October 2009 10:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [PAYCO] Confusion MEMBERS of the Pan Africanist Movement held a memorial anniversary for the second president of the then Pan Africanist Congress of Azania in Zwelitsha at the weekend. The party's Eastern Cape publicity secretary, Mlindeli ka Majama, said the event coincided with the birthday of their late president, Zephaniah Mothopeng, who died in 1993 shortly after he was released from prison. "This is something that we as the party had always wanted to do, to remember and honour our leaders, and now we are able to do that. "Uncle Zeph, or the Lion of Azania as he was affectionately called by his comrades in the underground movement, is one of the people that played a very vital role in the freedom that we enjoy as a country today," he said. Although the party's president, Thami ka Plaatjie, was scheduled to give the keynote address, he could not attend due to a family death. Ka Majama said the few people who attended made the event successful. "We were very pleased with the attendance considering that we are a new party and it was our first time to host such an important event with our former president, Clarence Makwetu, present," he said. The celebration included laying wreaths at the graves of struggle heroes Steve Biko and human rights lawyer Griffiths Mxenge . - By SIBONGILE MKANI - [email protected] Copy and paste on the link below to see the original article. http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=351352 Confusion --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Sending your posting to [email protected] Unsubscribe by sending an email to [email protected] You can also visit http://groups.google.com/group/payco Visit our website at www.mayihlome.wordpress.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
