The Movement Must Deal with Godongwana By Luzuko Buku The public utterances made by Health Minister Barbara Hogan are reckless and are characterised by complete disrespect of organisational discipline. Of all people, comrade Barbara would understand that discipline in the movement means respect of decisions taken by the majority and higher structures.
It is indeed true that the ANC is not government but is in government, so discipline in government might mean something very different to our organisational principles and values. I want to agree with government spokesperson, Themba Maseko that government has to address the issue of how ministers conduct themselves in instances where they do not agree with the position of government. Nonetheless, I want to appeal to comrades not to crucify comrade Barbara for a silly mistake that I think she regrets having made. Wherever she is, she must regret it, not because she has changed her views and is now in agreement with government but mainly because she has just spitted at our historically valued and respected organisational principles by compromising democratic centralism. We should not crucify comrade Barbara mainly because it’s her first time in a national ministerial position and as we all know it’s just few months since she has been there. As young cadres of the movement we say, we learn from our mistakes. With all this said, it was totally wrong for Enoch Godongwana to call for the resignation of comrade Barbara Hogan. Who is Godongwana to do this? Has he forgotten the workers that were fired by employers during his tenure in NUMSA? Does he know that most of those women did not receive any form of employment since then and as a result are living in abject poverty? He criticises comrade Barbara for the same thing that he is doing. The ANC delegates people to speak to the media on matters and issues affecting the organisation and on this matter it deployed its spokeswoman comrade Jessie Duarte. Godongwana undermines the ANC and comrade Jessie and goes to public without any instruction from the ANC. The ANC must decisively deal with Godongwana as he undermines it and further he paints a picture that our movement is in crisis, whereas it is not. Comrades must remember that this is the same Godongwana that was implicated in the Nzimande wanting to topple Kgalema Motlante saga. What does these recent utterances say about Godongwana and the rumours that were heralded in the media? We concluded that these rumours were just said by people who wanted to create divisions in the ANC leadership. Does this tell us anything as to who is the NEC member who said this and wanted to remain anonymous in the media? Godongwana is acting in a factionalist manner that indicates it clearly that his sympathies are not with the current ANC the reasons for his stay are only to divide it. Where is Godongwana when we are addressing issues of development, because I only hear about him in situations where there is controversy? Our movement should discipline but not crucify comrade Barbara but the issue of Godongwana should be looked at. Is he having his slice being bettered from both sides? Forward to Victory in The Battle of Ideas Luzuko Buku Rhodes YCL ________________________________ From: BONGANI NTOMBELA <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 2:53:59 PM Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] Re: dalai lama I believe that our government took economical & political correct decesion not allowing Delai Lama to come to our country. Government sometimes have to rise above the occasions & provide leadership by making the so called unpopular decisions in the best interst of the country. Yes it is true that some people have been crying foul because of this decision. But we have to live with it, because Im of the view that it is in the best interest of this country & its future. Lets refrain from making shortsighted analysis of the matter. ANC LIVES ! ANC LEADS ! Bongani Ntombela UKZN,Westville From: Sandile Dayi <[email protected]> Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] Re: dalai lama To: "YCLSA Discussion Forum" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 1:05 PM Well articulated, commander!! Thanks Keep it up >>> "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 3/26/2009 11:29 AM >>> >>> comrades, we should applaud the decision to not allow the dalai lame into SA, and we should use this opportunity to dispel false claims that the Dalai Lama is an advocate of democracy and that Tibet should be an independent state. firstly should Tibet be independent? tibet has only ever be ruled independently from china for 97 years....and this ended in 1368. since then tibet has been ruled as part of china mainly from baijing. it was only after the republican- pro western revolution in 1912 that the Dalai Lama's army took control of modern day Tibet. when the red army marched into Tibet not only did it break the feudal system that the dalai lama had installed., it also reclaimed the historical land of china. We must remember that it was the British government that funded the dalai lamas army with weapons in order to keep it free from Chinese rule as Britain still owned the then colony of India. the dalai lama claims that China discriminates against Tibetans and has acted to kill of Tibetans though acts of genocide. The dalai lame has claimed on numerous occasions that the Tibetans need to remain racially pure and only speaks out in favour of Tibetans (similar in fact to Aryans and Hitler). in actuality Tibet has an incredibly diverse population and historically existed of 4 different racial and language groups where interbreeding between the traditional groups was common place (used to be called mongralisation i believe). Yet the dalai consistently falsifies the number or traditional Tibetans living in Tibet but also surrounding Chinese territory in an attempt to distort an image that there is a Tibetans majority who have a 'real' claim for independence. during the years of full autonomy before the red army liberated Tibet, the dalai lama had instigated a system of feudalism, where rather then kings and queens in charge it was buddist monks and leaders and the population had to pay tribute to there religious leaders, if the Tibet became an independent nation, this is the type of system that would be instigated once more, yet the media portray him as a saviour of democracy finally the area that is included in the dalai lamas claim as Tibet counts as a much higher land area then Tibet has every historically had control over and there is no historical bases for this land are, apart from the falsified figures that the dalai lame quotes as traditional Tibetans. it is clear to see that the reason Tibet gets so much news space is a imperialist agenda to weaken the state of china and drumming up anti- china sentiment. Don't forget the American's have done it before with Taiwan where the republican leadership fled with the support of the US and Britain in order to break up china's territorial claims. We must defend china's claim to tibet, and we must oppose with all our strength an attempt to politicise the World Cup along these grounds. Brendan Rhodes Branch YCL Please find our Email Disclaimer here-->: http://www.ukzn.ac.za/disclaimer/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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. 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