Cde Gugu this may be a late posting but I would like to personally thank you for your desire to bring order in this forum. It's comrades like you who make these wise words meaningful in a true sense of the word: "Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear". I must say that it has been difficult for some of us to take part in this forum because it has degenerated into a blog of insults, labelling and character assassination of those disliked. We no longer actively engage with the issue being raised but the person raising it. It's a disaster, if not a recipe for political disengagement and organisational paralysis. On the SACP KZN statement, I noted an intent wittingly or unwittingly to provoke unnecessary frenzy in the singing of anti-Zuma songs at the ANC’s Limpopo conference over the weekend when deployed NEC members have not had an opportunity to report back. It's inconceivable for any comrade in his/her right mind to condone singing of a song that is exaggerated for comic effect or create a caricature that is insulting of the President of the Republic. We cannot equally make headlines about that or allow any structure of our movement to opportunistically take advantage of the situation to score cheap political points. It's against this background that the KZN SACP has no jurisdiction to make public pronouncements on issues of the ANC and its structures. It must, however, use proper channels to raise any concerns with regard to matters affecting our movement without resorting to the media - not unless we're made to believe that the Tripartite Alliance Secretariat in provinces is virtually non-existent or useless. Our movement is thirsty for visionary cadres not inconsistent and myopic comrades catapulted into leadership roles without having demonstrated an unwavering commitment to serve, and combat any tendency towards disruption and factionalism. To this end, the main source of the eruption of factional tendencies is lack of decisive leadership and selective approach to issues of discipline and good governance. All of this will continue to replicate and manifest in different forms as long as we remain complacent and obsessed with the cult of personality (politics). I have further noted that the statement of KZN SACP has prematurely chastised the Office of the Public Protector for having been approached by organs of civil society to investigate alleged improper pronouncements by cde Siyabonga Cwele, Minister of State Security, regarding a public interest defence clause relating to the Protection of State Information Bill. Yet the Constitution grants the Office of the Public Protector powers to investigate any maladministration and other forms of improper conduct in state affairs and on the country’s pursuit of good governance, without fear, favour or prejudice. Be as it may, the Public Protector applied her mind and decided not to proceed with the investigation but rather make a submission to the NCOP on behalf of her office to deal specifically with the potential impact of the Bill on the functionality of the office in the exercise of its powers and performance of functions in terms of Section 6(3)(b) of the Public Protector Act 23 of 1994. That is democracy in action. As expected, this development renders the KZN SACP statement to be pure red herring by virtue of having jumped the gun in what it believed to be interference with parliamentary processes and "crossing the line and had developed into a useful tool for the forces that are against this government..." Indeed, organs of civil society (both progressive and reactionary) are regrouping and opposition parties are using black faces to advance their agendas, while we're posturing over insignificant issues with no relation to the founding principles of our democracy. In a nutshell, let's get out of our comfort zone and go back to basics of our Strategies and Tactics in a quest to advance objectives of the National Democratic Revolution in its entirety. We need a moment of self-reflection in a quest for organisational renewal to strengthen our movement and keep cadres focused on its historical mission in order to entrench the hegemony of the Tripartite Alliance in society. 100 years of selfless struggle of our forebearers should lay the foundation for a new order to fundamentally change lives of our people and defeat any rise of elitist lobby groups and opposition parties hellbent at hijacking the cause of our National Democratic Revolution and the vision of the Freedom Charter. Remain, Morgan Phaahla
"Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology." - Joe Slovo --- On Tue, 12/20/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] Report of SACP KZN statement re Malema, Madonsela, and antimajoritarian, liberal "civil society" To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, December 20, 2011, 2:52 AM Cadres please This is not the time for petty squabbles its the very petty squabbles killing our movement. When are we gonna start engaging on how we move forward. We are crippling the ANC and this will cost us severely! Our generation will pay immensely for the current detrimental situation. Where within the ANC itself we have enemies. Where media has become our referee and self-annointed judicial system. Individuals are gonna come and go some leaving futile and distasteful legacies, which unfortunately will have to be rectified. Cadres NGO's are regrouping, opposition parties are using black faces to advance their agendas-and here we sit and fight over nonsensical matters which will not take us anywhere ! Cadres things are not good and we making them worse Gugu Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! From: [email protected] Sender: [email protected] Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:33:21 +0000 To: <[email protected]> ReplyTo: [email protected] Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] Report of SACP KZN statement re Malema, Madonsela, and antimajoritarian, liberal "civil society" You maybe a bigger IDIOT!Be an adult.... Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! From: [email protected] Sender: [email protected] Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:55:23 +0000 To: <[email protected]> ReplyTo: [email protected] Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] Report of SACP KZN statement re Malema, Madonsela, and antimajoritarian, liberal "civil society" I don't face idiots Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device From: Thabo Molamu <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:47:03 +0200 To: [email protected]<[email protected]> ReplyTo: [email protected] Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] Report of SACP KZN statement re Malema, Madonsela, and antimajoritarian, liberal "civil society" Sive, why are you so negative and ignorant. If you think you are much more better that him (Malema), go and contest him, don't attack the man on a media platform, go and face him. As if your contribution on the Centenary programme of the ANC is noticeable. You are making noise! Thabo Molamu's iPad On 20 Dec 2011, at 7:28 AM, [email protected] wrote: But really, let's face facts, Malema is not worth ANC dignity and its President. He is just an idiotic 30 year old which anyway his contribution to the Centenary of ANC is not even felt... Madala said so n the what??? Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device From: Dominic Tweedie <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:51:51 +0200 To: <[email protected]> ReplyTo: [email protected] Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] Report of SACP KZN statement re Malema, Madonsela, and antimajoritarian, liberal "civil society" <BusinessDay.gif> Hints at new charges over shower song for Malema Bekezela Phakathi, Business Day, Johannesburg, 20 December 2011 THE South African Communist Party (SACP) in KwaZulu-Natal yesterday said it would be surprised if additional charges were not brought against beleaguered African National Congress (ANC) Youth League president Julius Malema. Mr Malema, who is already facing a five-year suspension from the ANC, joined in the singing of anti-Zuma songs at the ANC’s Limpopo conference at the weekend. He also held his hand over his head to represent a shower head — an indirect reference to Mr Zuma’s 2006 rape trial. However, SACP provincial secretary Themba Mthembu said yesterday the provincial executive was not necessarily calling for action to be taken against Mr Malema. "All we are saying is that we will be surprised if action is not taken against him. It is for the ANC to decide." ANC national spokesman Jackson Mthembu said the party was awaiting an official report on what transpired at the Limpopo conference. "We have deployed people, we will wait for their report and then take it from there," he said. Anti-Zuma songs at the conference proclaimed "showara wa re sokodisa" (the shower man is giving us a hard time). Cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro usually depicts Mr Zuma with a shower head attached to his head — after Mr Zuma told a court in 2006 he had taken a shower after having unprotected sex with an HIV-positive woman. The re-election of Mr Malema’s key ally, Limpopo Premier Cassel Mathale, as provincial ANC chairperson, gives the youth league leader a political lifeline and base from which he can mount a comeback. Mr Mthembu said the SACP in KwaZulu-Natal had also discussed governance and the "sustained attack" on the office of the president. "This sustained attack manifests itself inside the ruling party in the form of new tendencies, and externally in the form of the civil society through (an) antimajoritarian, liberal offensive against the government and particularly the president of the republic," Mr Mthembu said. He said the SACP in the province believed Public Protector Thuli Madonsela was interfering with parliamentary processes and was now "crossing the line and had developed into a useful tool for the forces that are against this government..." Earlier this month, ANC chief whip Mathole Motshekga said it appeared that Ms Madonsela might be interfering in the legislative process after reportedly raising concerns with speaker Max Sisulu over the information bill. Yesterday, Ms Madonsela’s office said she "noted with concern what appears to be the politicisation of her office’s role in the parliamentary process relating to (the bill). "In an effort to insulate her office from what appears to be an unnecessary political storm, (she) has decided to delink her engagement with Parliament from the efforts of civil society, including representatives of the media," said spokesman Oupa Segalwe. 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