As to why the ANC Leadership was not present yesterday in Soweto, KUYOZWAKALA siyoyicela ivuthiwe!!!
Well Slovo was a revolutionary; so any progressive force that subscribe to his ideas can celebrate his life, I guess!!! We'll miss this one, cos we are only landing in the Northern CAPE Tomorrow! Long Live the Spirit of Cde Slovo; Long Live! On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:24 PM, DomzaNet <[email protected]> wrote: > <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D4UK2kWf5ik/S0TG1IUCiDI/AAAAAAAABtc/Ow91qLFRqAQ/s1600-h/ancSmall.jpg> > > > *Joe Slovo Memorial Lecture, 6 January 2010* > > *Mayibuye Centre, Galeshewe- Kimberley* > > > *ANC Treasurer-General, Cde Mathew Phosa* > > > Joe Slovo was a great South African and one of the key co-architects of the > “New South Africa”. Slovo was an active and creative participant in the > negotiations between the ANC, the NP and other parties that led to the first > democratic elections in 1994. > > He was also a member of the first Mandela cabinet with the responsibility > for Housing. Like many other South Africans, he gave up promising and > lucrative alternatives to establish a democratic order in South Africa. > > > As a white person, he set an example that leadership and participation in > charge has no race, nor culture or preferred language. > > It simply takes guts, good ideas and hard work to create a better life for > all. > > Slovo and other black and white patriots created a platform for the rest of > us as a basis for moving forward as well as to enable us to govern by the > principles that others had live and died for. > > The question that uppermost in my mind is how do we honour Slovo and other > leaders who suffered much more than we did. > > Whilst we cannot honour him in our life, we can honour him with the way we > live. I have a few ideas on how we can do so: > > We must attempt to steer our economy to create jobs, and not to shed it. > We must look at all avenues to assist companies who want to create new > opportunities for job seekers and entrepreneurs. > We must fight corruption in both the public and private sector with old and > new tools without any mercy. > We must start thinking now about how we use the 2010 infrastructure after > the World Cup is over. > We must find ways of creating more opportunities for partnership for our > own companies in the region and on the continent. > We must make BEE, and its’ benefits more practical, reciprocal, and less > bureaucratic. > We must plan for the upswing during this period of cautious optimism after > the downswing. > > To this we need leadership and leaders that are: > > Accountable > Transparent > Honest > In touch with the people > Not consumed by greed > Willing to listen, and > Willing to lead strongly when necessary. > > > *Issued by:* > *Jackson Mthembu* > *National Spokesperson* > > *African National Congress* > *Chief Albert Luthuli House* > *54 Sauer Street* > *Johannesburg* > *2001* > > *06 January 2010* > *Enquiries:* > *Ishmael Mnisi 082 333 5550* > *Brian Sokutu 071 671 6899* > > > -- > Posted By DomzaNet to Communist > University<http://domza.blogspot.com/2010/01/mathews-phosa-slovo-memorial-lecture.html>on > 1/06/2010 07:24:00 PM > -- > 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] . > >
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