These responses sound more narrow nationalist than ever especially coming out of a forum like this. I urge you to read the president's input today at the Numsa congress where he quotes OR as he concluded at the congress, I think Castro has posted that speech on our forum also.
It is important that we unite our people, the ANC cares a lot about our chiefs, tribal and traditional leads. In fact if you where to go to rural areas like Limpopo where I come from, the traditional leaders in the for, of chiefs, kings of tribal authorities and village elders are always at the forefront of mobilizing our people behind the vision of the ANC in terms of helping build unity and cohesion amongst the communities, bring about peace and brotherhood amongst families, resolve problems such as social and economic disputes amongst the rural peasants and residents. We have the most progressive forum of the traditional leaders in the form of CONTRALESA that is closest to the ANC, it enjoys all the privileges of raising any issue with the ANC, it also contests power in the ANC and even even has extra parliamentary capacities to lobby for certain policy and legislative positions in parliament and provincial legislatures as well as municipal councils. We have a very strong element of a working class within the Afrikaaner community which I believe does not deserve to be isolated. It even becomes more dangerous to us if you have the Afrikaaner lumpen proletariat that is isolated and becomes a vulnerable stooge to counter revolutionary anti majoritarian neoliberal capitalists who do not wish to see a fundamental transformation of our political economy. It is the role of the ANC to lead society, even those who hate the ANC, some of them they could be hating it because of their subjective understanding of the objective material conditions at the present conjuncture. Amongst them is that the anti majoritarian enemy of the people's camp, sponsored by historically imperialist white monopoly capital is feeling threatened by the ANC' revolutionary outlook towards economic transformation therefore posing a threat to their ownership of the means of production, ideological dominance in the battle of ideas, control over the media etc. these charlatans are exploiting for instance the frustrations suffered by the boer proletariat in its exclusion on Affirmative Action, Employment Equity and BBBEE for fair reasons as part of the ANC's programme on National Democratic Revolution. The boer proletariat that is also having certain similar challenges as the African proletariat especially from a perspective of youth unemployment is indoctrinated to believe that the ANC is a corrupt, racist organization that has messed up the country and destroyed all it's privileges. If you were al leader of the ANC you would also understand why these are such important communities, so are the Jewish, Arab, Chinese, Greek, Italian, Spanish and African communities. Sent from my iPad On 05 Jun 2012, at 4:00 PM, Abongile Tiwani <[email protected]> wrote: > Are our traditional leaders taken care of besides the stipend that they get ? > Seemingly ANC is after winning Afrikaner votes while the are loosing many of > the black majority votes through lack of service delivery, poor leadership > skills and etc by our elected councilors. > We need our traditional leaders to voice out their "feelings" and have > influence in their communities and stop being scared to loose their stipends > maybe that's when ANC will start noticing them and meet up with them. > > > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:49 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Tebogo, > > I wish we all mind. > > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device > From: [email protected] > Sender: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 13:46:59 +0000 > To: <[email protected]> > ReplyTo: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] ANC leaders, to have a meeting with Afrikaners > > When will ANC leaders meet with Xhosas,sothos, vendas ,ndebeles etc this > behaviour of making Afrikaans people the only people with feelings and > further afforded first class citizenship just like in the Apartheid era they > are even going to pose for a show of false unity . 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