Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -----Original Message----- From: sero...@hotmail.com Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:08:53 To: <pa...@googlegroups.co.za> Reply-To: sero...@hotmail.com Subject: Organisational cultural characteristics
I've been quite encouraged and motivated by the inputs on this forum lately, and am admittedly chuffed by Hulisani Mmbara and Mduduzi Sibeko with their probing insight and provocative interrogation of the assumptions we hold respectively. In my musings I've been trying to get a correct reading of the pulse in inner-Party matters. I will not bore you with the findings, safe to say that we are presently at the cross roads and must collectively navigate the path to a bright future - for the sake of the true vanguard, PAC, and the African people. The weight of history is on our shoulders. Our organisational culture - particularly subcultures - have increasingly degenerated our positive capabilities to work and win in extremely difficult conditions and turned instead into huge barriers to leveraging our collective wisdom. There exists among us detrimental personal ambitions to steal and hoard assets of the Party and turn them into fiefdoms. This is a huge stumbling block. I listened attentively to Narius Moloto at a PASMA national general council almost a month ago saying "the PAC will hold its elective congress in Butterworth with approved structured only and no one will stop this". This is fatal absolutism and goes against the grain of democratic centralism - a cornerstone of the PAC's decision making process. In organisational theory, structure follows strategy. Moloto's approach is to completely deny the rot in their administration - where both a constitutional crisis and a legitimate leadership crisis exist - and to bury his head in the sand like the proverbial ostrich. He claimed in his take-it-or-leave-it approach that only branches blessed by him as "party-builder" will go to congress. This is a classic case of how personal bigotry and intolerance destroys collective reasoning and decision-making. I also do not understand the concept of political slates (as in the ANC) where election lists are secretly prepared and canvassed among voting cattle ahead of resolving the current crises. These lists are always headed by some shady individual with a hidden agenda. Politically, mountain-topism (the concept of rallying around a personality in inner-party campaigns) is a recipe for disaster and often turns the individual into the head of a divisive faction. Haven't we learned from the experience with Themba Godi, Thami ka Plaatjie, Letlapa Mphahlele and others. How we deal with mistakes significantly reflects the sub-cultural norms and practices in our organisation. Thick headed behavior and practice, in which we are reluctant to admit mistakes, shapes the context of our serial failures in social interaction with the Azanian masses. Do we really think the masses will not scrutinise the way we solve our own problems? The value of recognizing the source of mistakes, and fixing them, is critical to our collective party building success. We have to be objective and frank in our interactions with each other, comrades and compatriots. This is why I found the inputs and follow through on Mmbara and Sibeko quite enriching and inspiring to the cause of sustaining the Lembede-Sobukwe-Biko political legacy. Jaki Seroke Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -- 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
