What a brilliant response by Minister Cwele's advisor to Jeremy Maggs on eNews Channel a few minutes ago. He said in Wall street 99% is protesting because they are ignored while in South Africa it is the 1% protesting because they want to impose their will on the 99%. Well said Mr Dlomo!
I also heard him putting John Robbie firmly in his place on Talk Radio 702 this morning (21 Nov). John ended up admitting that he has not read the Bill yet he is one of the people creating the hysteria around the very Bill he has not read! I rest my case. Mthimkulu Mashiya Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -----Original Message----- From: Fusi Motaung <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:38:57 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] Don Mattera: National Press Club? Who the s*** are they? But Yusuf Abramjee must start engaging Don Mattera; he is the Chairperson of NPC for God's sake! Why is he opting for a silent aggression? Don is raising an important historical issue. Liberal tendencies, when exposed, behave in this fashion. On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Dominic Tweedie <[email protected]>wrote: > > [image: News24] > > > *Veteran reporter slams 'all-white' press club* > > > *Lauren Hess, News24, Johannesburg, 21 November 2011* > > ****Cape Town - Veteran journalist and anti-apartheid activist Don > Mattera on Monday launched a blistering attack on the National Press Club > (NPC).**** > > ****Mattera was speaking to News24 in response to an NPC “Black Tuesday” > campaign to mark the National Assembly vote on the protection of state of > information bill.**** > > ****“Steve Biko must be shaking in his grave when he hears that a former > all-white organ that helped promote the banning of Don Materra and others > is now in the frontline for democracy,” Mattera, a founding member of > the Black Consciousness Movement and the Union of Black Journalists, told > News24.**** > > ****“And they’re using the word black and not white? That hits me.”**** > > ****Mattera added that “it beats me [how the press club] can have an > all-white [membership] and one Indian [Yusuf Abramjee] who is the > chairperson. **** > > ****“Who the shit are they?**** > > ****“How can an organisation that is not borne out of the struggle for > liberation, that is not borne out of the ethos of the black consciousness > movement [now lead Black Tuesday]... people think I must support that?”*** > * > > ****Mattera said however that he did not support the protection of > information bill and that he was against anything “that gags the free flow > of information”. **** > > ****The 77-year-old, who has worked at the Sowetan, the Sunday Times and > the Weekly Mail, went on to say that he and others had yet to be > compensated for their activist work which involved him being under house > arrest for 16 years and tortured.**** > > ****He said it was ironic that those who never fought for liberation were > now “ensconced” in the press club that was led by “pro-apartheid villains”. > **** > > ****The NPC's chairperson Yusuf Abramjee said via Twitter that Materra had > the right to say what he wants as its freedom of speech.**** > > ****- News24 > > *****From: > http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Veteran-reporter-slams-all-white-press-club-20111121?fb_ref=.TspKghgh7op.like&fb_source=other_multiline > * > > > > ** > > -- > 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] . > -- Fusi M. Motaung Development & Process Facilitator MOROLO CONSULTANT tel: 0721207603 | fax: 0865482896 | e-mail: [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] . -- 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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