Mnumzana Mduduzi Sibeko Thanks for highlighting the story of Hamilton Naki. The SABC and Mzansi Magic channels flighted documentaries on Hamilton Naki recently, perhaps after pressure to indicate knowledge of the story. Dr Chris Barnard and others can use the apartheid conditions as a cover but it will never erase the work done by Naki in the heart transplant surgeries in Groote Schuur. At high school during debates in 1975/6 I remember some of the luminaries then referring to a Black man sidelined for discovering the ways to do heart transplant. They also referred to Reginald Boleu, a product of teachers from Orlando High School, who was a mathematical genius studying to be a nuclear physicist abroad - but that he could not work in SA because of job reservation laws. There are obviously countless others we know in our communities, who never made the news pages, who were suppressed and declared mad for inventing things under the jackboot of settler colonial forces. I know the story of General John Ganya. He served two terms on Robben Island prison and was accused number two in the secret Bethal trial. We all called him "General" in prison because his age and experience allowed him to be a general of an army of freedom fighters. He was completely dedicated to the cause of national liberation, led by the PAC of Azania. In the early seventies when they were reviving the PAC in the country, he criss-crossed Southern Africa without a passport, even reaching the PAC head office in Dar es Salaam to talk to the leadership of the mission in exile. He took messages from Sobukwe to Mothopeng to Leballo and to Mapumzana David Sibeko and Vusi Make (the latter two were called the baby elephants) and all other units of Poqo available in the country. He knew villages in Dinokana in the then western Transvaal in and out including square metres. I had worked in the area in the eighties and was amazed at this man's photographic memory and precise information on these locations despite his scanty education. For me, he was what the Basic Documents refer to as the "cornerstone" that firms up and lead the African Revolution. The cornerstone according to the PAC Basic Documents are the semi-literates and the illiterates, or in ideological diction, the workers and the poor peasants. Ironically, Ganya is less talked about in the modern PAC. Most of the Soweto 76 generation of PAC recruits were products of Ganya and Dr Ntshuntsha who died in detention in 1976. Mothopeng and his team of revolutionary intellectuals used the works of Paulo Freire such as "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" to unlearn bad bourgeois habits of thick-headed teaching methods and to learn from the people in the act of teaching them about the revolution and social changes. This information is part of the secret Bethal Trial. The trial was secret because it was not reported on by organs such as the Star newspaper who withdrew their reporters from the case, and the harassment of others by the secret police. Ganya in the trial becomes a patriotic hero, and his story needs to be known by every cadre of the PAC. We must then tell the Azanian masses about these unknown heroes. Ganya sadly died several years back. I doubt if the Party has erected a memorial stone for this noble son of the soil. And by Party I mean every Pan Africanist and even the branch where he operated in Soweto or his co-accused or fellow political prisoners. I don't suggest that his story diminishes the quality of the contributions by Hamilton Naki and his part in the Groote Schuur heart operations. I link the two because Ganya suffered severe internal injuries during torture and in prison was a constant visitor of Groote Schuur hospital. In a free and democratic SA I don't know what Groote Schuur means, but I know the contributions of these two noble sons of Afrika. My open palm salute. Izwe lethu iAfrika Jaki
From: msib...@randwater.co.za To: payco@googlegroups.com Subject: [PAYCO] Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 08:14:15 +0000 Cde Seroke: Appartheid was more evil, severe more than Nazism and Fascism. Attached is a powerpoint of a sad story. kind regards Mduduzi Sibeko Admin/finance T +27-11-724-9281 C +27-71-101-2595 F +27-11-900-1929 F 086-754-2176 E msib...@randwater.co.za www.randwater.co.za This email and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential and proprietary information. This information is private and protected by law and, accordingly, if you are not the intended recipient, you are requested to delete this entire communication immediately and are notified that any disclosure, copying or distribution of or taking any action based on this information is prohibited. Emails cannot be guaranteed to be secure or free of errors or viruses. The sender does not accept any liability or responsibility for any interception, corruption, destruction, loss, late arrival or incompleteness of or tampering or interference with any of the information contained in this email or for its incorrect delivery or non-delivery for whatsoever reason or for its effect on any electronic device of the recipient. Views and opinions expressed or implied in this email are those of the sender unless clearly stated as being that of Rand Water. If verification of this email or any attachment is required, please request a hard-copy version. -- Sending your posting to payco@googlegroups.com Unsubscribe by sending an email to payco-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com You can also visit http://groups.google.com/group/payco Visit our website at www.mayihlome.wordpress.com -- Sending your posting to payco@googlegroups.com Unsubscribe by sending an email to payco-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com You can also visit http://groups.google.com/group/payco Visit our website at www.mayihlome.wordpress.com
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