The compounding turmoil, organic and structural, that continues to eat away on the history, current position and future potential of the PAC is manifestly profound. The recent infantile self-show of hands for leadership, TO LEAD US, is the clearest indicator of this turmoil and the extent to which the party is being undermined daily and pitched at infantile levels of the highest order. I have been hesitant to deal with this matter firstly because its protagonists are what Lenin calls infants (political) and secondly because it ought to be openly seen as deceitful by all party members. I have since decided that there is a huge danger in letting untruths go unchallenged and I undertake almost effortlessly to show the weakness of the dream (like Martin Luther s ‘I have a dream’ or Obama s ‘yes we can”) and the smallness in substance of the protagonists of this idea. Just before I do this I want to remind you of Gaddafi s address to the UN Assembly. He had said we must ‘today’ speak the truth openly and directly, and truth he did speak before he was martyred. There is an irreversible danger in skating around a wrong idea because before long, it becomes gospel to innocent and perhaps new members of our movement.
We have a duty to speak the truth fiercely and this at least is what the PAC taught us, those of us who grew up in the PAC and have had the rare privilege to lead its structures even at Branch community level. PAC members have always taken a position and Sobukwe himself did not think appeasement is any model for leadership. It is this obsession with appeasement that has led to the 1994 settlement. When those of our forebears who faced death daily could not model PAC on appeasement why should we tolerate some history-less characterless group to model our party this way disguising it as some indescribable concept of ‘principled unity’. Because most of you on this mediocre path were completely uninvolved in PAC obviously until when you needed some social engagement and thought PAC provided such leisure, you must ask us and many others how we formed PAC branches and how many times we have been offered opportunities in exchange for behaving like yourselves (convenience masters) and how we rejected these just as must now reject your tendencies. The most dangerous attack to the revolution and its vanguard is that which comes from within: from fellas who refuse to learn the PAC and negate the need to grow character for leadership. We must combat this with the ruthlessness equal to how we treat an enemy. Look at the damage done to the party by characters like Godi, De Lille, Thami and many more others who masqueraded amongst us. We are all duty-bound to stand combat ready to defend the PAC. And tendencies employed by sell outs are the same everywhere. They use foreign terms and words that cannot be pinned anywhere, and this is also because on the one hand they stand for nothing and on the other they stand for the opposite of the party. Because I do not live for ovation I will say things the way I see them and perhaps the way they are at different levels. The choice to use neutral colourless words is as dangerous to the party and the revolution as the ones advancing the dream type of a party. The PAC cannot be led by Lindiwe Mazibuko kind of characters who think that our problems are school based and a result of inefficiency. Our problems are systemic first and foremost. We cannot keep or reform the system, it must be overthrown. Anyone who a few weeks ago spoke against congress and all of a sudden now speaks for congress, to go to their level, is spineless and apolitical. The idea being peddled is as moribund as is laughable. It is in fact a complete show of the lack of self-belief and lack of determination to pursue truth. When these chaps have no courage to pursue what they said yesterday how can they lead us and even more crucially the revolution. In broad day light, we said the manner of calling congress and the state of the party as a whole do not permit for the convocation of the congress. And these fellas want to lead us my God, and some of us want to skate around these behaviour. No ! this is un PAC and bad even in social club parlance which is truly where these chaps belong. Is this not even worse than what it purports to seek to replace. The truth is that this group believes in in congress and stand with President Letlapa on it and are looking for co-option through this. They stand with everyone as well except that in truth they are the enemies of the movement and social outcasts of the sort. Their call for unity is disingenuous. It’s a unity of what. It has to be the unity of opposing ideas. You can only unite people around a program not around a smile. What ideas are they postulating which are opposed to which ones? The simple truth is that they have no political ideas to deal with modern day capital and to mobilise the masses of our people. Put it this way, they have no capacity to generate revolutionary ideas. These are chronic liberals who have not achieved anything in their personal lives and see the PAC as an opportunity for title. And these sorts are many and have all come into the party, maimed it and some passed on to pursue their nefarious ideas. The least that party members have done historically is to refute a whole sale closure and co-option of the PAC, structurally. This time we must be on the assault, crushing these moves for they are dirty and weaklings-driven. We must storm these political dwarfs who yesterday were telling everyone how the congress was inappropriate and illegitimate and today they are the key proponents of it. I will not use liberal terms such as “they have a different view”, it is simple they are liars and crooks who wish to feed off our innocent and unassuming members. If we do not label them for what they are they will most certainly repeat and we will encourage others in the future to do the same. In any case these fellas are not opposed to congress in July and as a matter of fact they are opposed to nothing and to nobody, and this is defined as spineless. You can never lead a revolution like that, in revolt which must be our chief path of action, you take a stand and rally the masses on an unambiguous programme. The so-called manifesto and responses to questions is a complete sham and if we were to interrogate it, it will collapse at first question. In fact the document is also an ideological and philosophical madness. These infants tell us that the upcoming congress is a constitutional dilemma. What dilemma ?, it is only a dilemma for them because they lack truth and the courage of their conviction. Because of their spinelessness which they wish to feed all of us, they want to sit on the fence. The upcoming congress is unconstitutional, politically wrong and damaging to the party, not DILEMMA. You (they) are the only ones who use such sinful and ‘careful’ terms as dilemma. Somewhere in the document you go on to suggest that you will provide a solution to resolve the constitutional crisis. You can’t go into office on a wrong platform and suggest to us that once you are in you will be a legitimate rep of the party. It must be a little bit of an intellectual handicap here, to think like this. You call it a crisis but you want to be a product of the same crisis and still tell us that you are with us. This is so ANC like behaviour and somewhat IFP-sh. The so-called pillars of the program of action are even more interesting. For some education, a program of action is not sound bites, it is as ideologically detailed as is operationally clear. I also do not share your behaviour to think that a program of action is a collection of plagiarised sentences here and there. You obviously do not understand the task at hand and I am at a loss - in which social club it even crossed your minds that you are anywhere closer to leading a revolutionary party with eminent leaders, past, like Sobukwe. Everything that you are positing has been said and written about. Go and spend some time in the party offices including some campuses with students to orientate yourself. To help you, you must go and read the IOTA program on how we should mobilise the different segments of our society: it is ideology ideology, organise organise and take over through campaigns and mass actions. You have no guts to stand up to the ANC and the courage to lead our people. It may be that because you read about our people s sufferings and meet victims of poverty during school or work holidays. We come from these communities not just born there, we have marched for water, electricity and jobs, things that you have not had the privilege to experience except when you do them as a hobby of some kind in the assurance that in a few hours you will go back to the work and school type environment homes; this is what I read from your behaviour. Let alone the fact that there was no response to Nkrumah s very polite questions, to me as you all know those we worked together white is white black is black period !!! It is also interesting to do a mini look at the characters behind this infantile self-show of hands. In doing this I will use comrade Sbu who has decided to be part and the embodiment of this infantile project and is in fact the originator of the idea and the so-called nomination, I think. When Sobukwe was asked whether he hated white people just as apartheid, his answer was that it is illogical to say you hate the jambok but not the person who wields it. This anology will apply in this regard. I want to make a contribution to your development comrade Sbu, your development to behave and speak like a true PAC ‘boy’, and then your development to have guts and shed off your demonstrated imagination that revolution will equal a boarding school naughitiness, it is bloody and crude requiring men of character. I want to respectfully suggest to you that you are extremely junior in every respect. And here I do not refer to age. Your understanding of the PAC is rudimentary and dangerous, testimony to the fact that you are yet to become a PAC boy like most of us are. Granted you come from an IFP infested home area where even some of the current ANC leaders coming from that part of the country were themselves members of the IFP, I am quite certain that you joined the PAC very late in your life. I will not venture to ask what you and your family were before you decided on the leisure of the PAC. I must confess that the only time I met you was very late in my political activist life within the PAC. This was when you were apparently being very helpful to comrade Cameron who was PAYCO President in providing wheels. When I was elected PAYCO President and your name featured and you on our ticket emerged as SG I said perhaps the chaps knew your PAC-ness and capacity. Despite you being a little older than most, I had not met you in any PAC gathering. And I see you only read about these gatherings as at the time your focus was elsewhere. I am not insisting that you should have been there but I indeed suggest that these things should help you and your small insignificant group to know your place – learners. And it is not a bad thing to learn, we all go this route. I attended a lot of PASO/PASMA Congresses as leader and Chairman of a branch and had never met you. I also attended a lot of PAC gatherings post 1990 and you were not there because you were not a member, and if you were you could not even pass Branch nominations just to attend I suppose. Comparably I know and I met a lot comrades (several times through the years) on PAC business across the country including KZN and GP, provinces where you were born and where you now live respectively. I can give you examples. When we succeeded the great PASO generation of Molapo, Sithole, Good Friday, Clarence and many others, and I took off as Secretary General and Nkrumah deputising me we travelled all over the country and in all campuses and as you know you were not there and had no will to as nothing stopped you. I am quite sure that after our term when both Nkrumah and I proceeded to become Presidents of the Student movement and of a historically ANC dominated university SRC we did not come across You. Neither did we ever meet you when we worked in PAYCO under Masombuka and later under Cameron until the wheels period. As you and I know, while you continued as SG of PAYCO you had not much of an opinion on any substantive PAC issue and at that point I had already made up my mind that in becoming an SG you went through the cracks a fallacy you wish to relive now this time on a PAC level. I certainly hoped and wished that you will learn as we were showing you around and how PAC works. Well I did not mind the fact that you had no force of character as many started like you. And a mistake was repeated again of allowing you to succeed me as president in the hope that you will grow into a PAC and a man of character. This was not to be and in fact you worked against some of the things we were carrying out with you, just as you are behaving now on congress!! I have worked with many of our young but senior members who have been there like Linda, Sebei, Kubayi, Tshepo Lefera, and many more. It is near madness to think that the PAC leadership is simply about those who are available like you think you are, it is about the quality of the leadership and what one stands for not some spy-like tendencies where you agree with both the enemy and friend. There are people who join the PAC because in their minds it is a small party and that they will therefore grow quickly. You sound and behave very much like them. The PAC is not small, it is big with eminent leaders and personalities; it is not to be taken to the gutters of weakness and sub-standardism as you are doing. People died for this organisation and not on a ticket of some crookish appeasement concepts nor on some ANC like throw of words such as principled unity. They took a stand, went to war and some died for it. There is also the myth of school as well, in your minds. And I know you are at all not opposed to President Letlapa s manner of running the party, it is all games. In your minds you think revolution is about the change of power in hands within the PAC. You need a spine to lead the masses and this you cant promise us, you must have demonstrated it somewhere and fortunately there are many platforms to do this if you had or have the guts. Even juxtaposing any of you fellas with the current incumbent, you guys are in a play-boyish type of a crusade. If we could tell President Letlapa (at least as young man he stood up carried a gun went to war and faced death and gaol daily for freedom and self-determination) that he is wrong why should we skate around you when you lack even the historical grounding of your own age group let alone generation. You know people like Letlapa, Mlambo, Makwetu, Kgosana, Mkhwanazi, Fihla, Pheko and many others went to war for this party. The fact that some of them later mess up is another matter; but at least these are PAC Guys. Even chaps like Thami and Godi were PAC boys who decided later to choose prestige over cause. And by the way before they all left the PAC they behaved exactly like you, but waited until they could use some title in the PAC to go where they belong – ANC. I really think you and the group need a silent and honest caucus of your own and decide on proper behaviour – learn and stop dragging us through mediocrity. Lastly, we must embark on a project to complete a program of action and I have started putting my views down as contribution to this work which shall be collective. Soon I will share what I have written for discussion and let us all do the same. Once we have a program and a leadership to guide the party shall blossom. It is important to speak truth not in terms or in some dilluted terms. We must assault wrong and cowardish ideas even within our ranks. The opposite of truth is lies and the silence of those aware of the lie is itself a turmoil. The need to look good and civil is exactly what kills Africa and its revolutionary parties. I am an African born of the PAC of Azania !! 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