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which can be viewed at http://www.eskom.co.za/email_legalnotice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ whilst I agree with the post below, what the NOB's of YCL should have done was to call a special meeting of them and clarify themselves and maybe come up with a unified approach that would in a way tone down the damage done by the chair.. and maybe seek to open up a space for dialogue rather than for them to publicly and quickly distance themselves, however another flip side is that someone from the media or else from within the organisation would run with this story and deepen to deepen divisions.. are you not surprised by the silence of ANC YL? or else i am missing out something.. >>> Songezo Mleqwa <[email protected]> 2010/09/07 05:51 PM >>> Dearest VC I have read both Masondo's article and the YCL statements. I think we should understand the rationale behind the National Office statement. The basic point here is that you do not go out and break organisational discipline and make yourself a HERO, raising issues merely because they are right and use the name and position accorded to you by the organisation. There is always a rider called "The writer is so and so but writes in his personal capacity..." when anyone writes in the newspapers if those views are not the official position of the organisation. The Proffessor should have know this: no matter how intelligent or educated or heroic or popular or bold you are or want to be, you can never be above the organisation. This is like Holomisa who was bold enough to expose corruption of certain leaders of the ANC in the Ciskei, contradicting an organisational decision and the organisation itself, confusing his personal popularity and so called principled approach. It is not that the ANC was supportive of corruption and those who were corrupt, but it was important for the ANC to protect its organisational discipline from such abuse. When we join organisations, we submit to its constitution and other cultures. Masondo has been around long enough, and has actyually presided over the expulsion of some comrades who have committed such acts. I actually believe that the YCL statement was linient. I agree that the YCL should be vocal on all of these issues, but the YCL is not a picnin organisation where, without engament within the organisation, anyone can make any statement on its behalf. This is not a free for all but an organisation with rules and procedures. If all of these are less important than the views and emotions of individual leaders, then we may as well not have this YCL. Lets not be worshippers of men at the expense of organisational procedures and principles. I am sure the national office agrees with the views expressed by Prof Masondo, but does it mean, for expediency, they should just let go and allow the rule of the jungle. Communist regards Songezo Mleqwa NB: This email and its contents are subject to the Eskom Holdings Limited EMAIL LEGAL NOTICE which can be viewed at http://www.eskom.co.za/email_legalnotice -- 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] .
