Dear comrade Kaizer Mohau First of all thank you for your contribution on the SASCO matter. Let me just say from the word go that SASCO revolutionary credentials speaks for them self. As a former member of this progressive student movement I know and appreciate the challenges it is faced with. Yes I must say that at some point there was a robust and vigorous contest for the soul of the student formation. Take for example the 2007 national congress which took place in Cape Town. One of the key matters of contest at this congress was weather SASCO should declare itself a Marxist student organization since in any case it was applying Marxist-Lenin tools analysis. What this simply meant was that SASCO’s SPOT (Strategic Perspective on Transformation) document would alter-meanly be drafted in a manner that reflected on the hope and aspiration of a communist student movement. Those of us who really believed that this was the correct approach were defeated. Non the less we acknowledge the principal of majority rule and accepted this fate.
I personally have not been in touch with the politic of SASCO for over 3 years now but what I hear from cadres who are students and those still involved with student politics is that SASCO is slowly returning to its student vanguardism approach. What I’m trying to get at is that you just cant wish the alliance between SASCO, the ANC YL, COSAS and YCL away. This Progressive Youth Alliance is as a result for real and programmatic struggles shared by these youth formations. It therefore goes without saying that our approach towards any conflict and misunderstanding among the Youth Alliance partners should be first to find ways of reconciling them rather further entrenching the seed of division. We should at every opportunity remind these cadres that they have more in common than that, that set them apart. Lastly I do not want to dwell mach on weather who is a liar and whose not, or weather the one is right or wrong. Ours as former members of the SASCO and YCL should be educate all comrades about the value of sober and honest rule of political engagement. One thing the Mbeki area should teach us is that as soon as one alliance partner undermines the other, not only does it lay the foundation for disaster but it further result in a situation that further weakens the whole alliance as we know it. Please comrade let us in all our discourse strive for unity and cohesion. Matimba ------------------------------------------- South Africas premier free email service - www.webmail.co.za ------------------------------------------------------------------ For super low premiums, click here http://home.webmail.co.za/dd.pwm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
