Greetings cde Siwakhile, I noted your view on the saga, however what seems to be the problem is the manner in which the national office bearers (NOB) dealt with the matter. I do not agree with the distancing approach as it creates impression that there is no organisational cohesion and unity but tension at the top. It would have been strategic for the NOB to convene an emergency meeting and call a press conference thereafter to clarify aspects of the article to the YCL and the movement as a whole. For the record, one would have been happy to hear the NOB expressing a view that cde David wrote the opinion piece in his personal capacity not to say "has never canvassed these views internally within the YCLSA". Because all of this means NOB decided to disown its leader in public because it's convenient to do so. A lacklustre statement like "YCLSA National Office Bearers wishes to distance themselves and the organisation from the views expressed by the YCLSA National Chairperson, Comrade David Masondo, in yesterday’s edition of the City Press", is not good enough but pure public relations disaster! Unfortunately, damage is done and what is needed is a strategy to sort this mess out. The NOB must correct this pattern of humiliating leaders in public and learn to attend to the merits and demerits of what has been said. There is no doubt in my mind that had what cde David said be a shared view of the NOB, the article would have been parroted and the whole saga treated differently. Is that consistent? I don't think so! Remain, Morgan Phaahla
"Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology." - Joe Slovo --- On Tue, 9/7/10, siwakhile nogaga <[email protected]> wrote: From: siwakhile nogaga <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [YCLSA Discussion] Article by David Masondo, YCL National Chairperson To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 6:23 AM Cdes I have read the article by David and also the statement from YCL National Committe. As all of you comrades I vehemently agree that what is written in David's article is very correct and it is an issue that should be raised. But I am failing to find what is wrong if the National Commitee distances itself from that article because it is not its statement and it seems as if it was not informed before it release. As the discipline members of the organisation we all know that every matters should be discussed in our organisational gatherings and through secritaries they can be voice out to public by any means. Hic Rhodus, hic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ South Africa's 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] . -- 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] .
