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Dear SASCO MEMBER Let me start by reminding you that the fundamental purpose of this forum is to her us grow our capacity. However, I am not going to judge whether your discussions does respond to this fundamental purpose or not. I also want to remind you that SASCO has thousands of members so it is very important to identify yourself in this Mass Democratic Movement. We subscribe to democratic principles such as freedom of speech and so on. So we do not have comrades Anonymous in this MDM but we have Cde Senzo, Cde Mdu, Cde Khaye, etc. I have been a member of SASCO and had a privilege to participate in its constitutional structures such as BGMs, PGCs, PCs, NGCs and NCs. This made me to interact with the previous leadership including the current one. I had an opportunity to engage the leadership on a number of issues. I always like to see a united and working PYA. This can also be done in a number of ways including constructive criticism. This is not a sweetheart relationship, it is a revolutionary and organic one, so one can engage and be engaged. I was present in a 2005 NC in Limpopo, where the leadership refused to pronounce its position to support the then ANC deputy President. That leadership convened the NGC in 2005 July in the 17th Shaft wherein they invited Jacob Zuma through the then SG of the ANC and later replaced him with the then NWC member Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka who had replaced Cde Zuma in country's Vice Presidency. You know what transpire after that... I think you will recall that the 2006 Leadership did not said even on a single day that it support the then ANC Deputy President and they distanced themselves from court appearance wherein all MDM formations were expected to show up. The 2005 ANC NGC took a resolution to support the then Deputy President, so allow me to take it from Cde Thabo Mbeki he said "Correctly the National General Council has expressed its support for our Deputy President during these trying and painful times. Once more we have emphasised the point that it is an imperative of natural justice that he should have an opportunity to defend himself against whatever accusations have been made against him. We are all united around these principled positions and join him in hoping that the judicial processes will not be delayed unnecessarily". But surprisingly the 2005 to 2007 leadership could not take respect of this decision. I hope you will recall that the previous leadership would just act outside the knowledge of its branches in case there are public demonstrations against certain institutional issues in various Universities. I hope you also witness that 2006 National Congress of SASCO was planned to be addressed by Cde Vavi but he was eventually replaced by Madisha because of the reasons known to the then SASCO leadership only. It came no surprise to some of us that the 2007 SASCO leadership could not provide leadership on students' issues and successfully provided leadership on personal and factional agendas. This was demonstrated when they compromised the principle of continuity during the SAUS conference in Bloemfontein. The national deployment committee could not make Cde Chulumanca an Executive leader of SAUS simple because he had a fight with the SG of SASCO. I hope you also witnessed the performance of the students organization in 2007 chief. It was so bad. Surprisingly that 2007 leadership was not in a position to convene a Conference in December 2007 because they wanted to attend the ANC Conference in Polokwane. I hope you will also agree with me when I say because of the legacy of the previous leadership we do not know when the term of office is going to expire now. I hope as a member of SASCO you can now realize that there has been a change with regard to the relations among the PYA. The language you find in SASCO is identical to what you find in YCL, ANCYL, and COSAS. This is what we want to see happening in these structures comrade SASCO MEMBER; a healthy political relationship that advocates and represents the interest of the youth and those of students. I will close my input by reminding you and all our comrades that we have a responsibility to sustain our 1994 gains. And that can only happen when we vote for the ANC to continue leading the government. Since we are in a revolutionary organization that believes in freedom of expression I want to emphasize that you should reveal your name chief. Like wise my name is Cde Senzo Dlamini from Pietermaritzburg in Willowfountein. Thank you. 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