Narius et al, It is always important for leadership to identify its place and positioning in any contest. The inability of the leadership to place itself appropriately in a contest is itself a confirmation of the lack of it, and consequntly results in colossal damage to the party and its people in general.
Thus the question, in the midst of all these contradictions where do those that have assumed the positions of leading the PAC place themselves. There are indeed many choices to make as long as one is aware and consciuos that they have chosen a particular course of action. You can choose to play technical and/or trivialise every and any critique on the back of 'the office I hold'. Still you can choose to avoid the contest and behave as though all is colourful and alright. Or you can elect to assume leadership and extricate the party from the quaqmire. Making this latter choice goes of course with a lot of responsibilities. The question facing Narius and Mr Mphahlele today is, what course of action have you taken on the current contests and why. It is not much about banging the rationale into our heads as it is more about banging it into your own heads and feel that you are on just and logical ground. What you do not hope to do, from the manner of your writing is to self inject yourself with the belief that you can impose your logic, or still that you can casually just go about it because you hold office. That approach is not leadership, it is office holding. I can say to you my dear comrade that leadership requires different tact and approproach. I will share with you what I have said before, that it is not leadership. I hope you have the gut to swalow some of the illustrative examples I will point below, themselves a test of your leadership psyche and readiness. Without going too far back into history, it is not leadership to attempt to sack a Finance Secretary in this case Charge-In as he then was, and when you are unable to provide ratioanle for same you pass a decree. By the way I was there, the President as he then was, did not pass the decree because of any identified crisis, but because the NEC did not see why he singled out the Finance Secretary for sacking. He snapped, in my presence by the way, and said he will invoke a decree. I said then and I maintain now that he could have done exceedingly better than that i.e provided leadership. If one cant lead a committee of 15 people how can one lead 45 million, sounds tricky as it became apparent on 'that day'. Similalry attempting to establish a parallel APLAMVA structure because you prefer differently to the current incumbents is not leadership. It is at best avoidance if not dereliction of the responsibility to lead. Imagine proffering this rationale for attempting to destroy the legacy of a colourful liberation force like APLA. For the same reason today we have a paper computer-based organisation called the pacyl to compete the PAYCO, the true heir, properly so, of AZANYU, of which I was too privileged to be President. An organisation led by other equally vibrant young lions who came before me such as Wonder Masombuka, Cameron Tabane etc. Instead of assuming the task of leadership and engage PAYCO avoidance was the easy route thus the computer based structure called pacyl. Unfortunately in the public eye the organisation suffers, but perhaps this was exactly the intent. This same problem has befallen PAWO. And name changes have assumed significance over content, a matter of empasis that is weird to say the least. When one accepts leadership you accept it knowing that you will lead people from different persuasions, you dont chicken out on picking this up as if it was not anticipated. You guys must lead. It is not much helpful either to remind people that they are not members, perhaps in the same way that it may not be very helpful to remind you that you have no standing politically and legally to assume NEC status. What you may want to consider doing is to lead the organisation and minimise the polarisation program. The party has been broken into many small pieces without any benefit. There is no evidence to date to demonstrate thet your model works, instead it looks very much to be self serving and ego massaging. I am indeed, son of the soil worried by your unwillingness to assume leadership on the back of the offices you hold. You seem to enjoy the email exchange than dwell on the task facing you and Mr Mphahlele i.e that of honestly leading the organisation. I worry because both Godi and Thami behaved exactly along your modus before they later jotted a document inviting us to collapse into the ruling party. I am not sure how you will engage with my humble input, and how much I wish you could introspect deeply and peraps with the assistance of the far sighted, so that you can find your place and positioning as leadership !! Ndaa !! 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