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Original Post Date: 2007-10-05 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[Yeah well Vavi wants this country to crash and burn NOW! He wants Communism and he wants it bad. Personally, I’m not against this type of thing. If the Blacks want to do the crazy thing and burn this country down *NOW*, then I say: Let’s rock with it. Really… I’d rather have it sooner than later.
Mbeki and his secret Xhosa Cabal, do want to do it, but they first want to wear us down, and quietly screw us in other ways. Mbeki will fake to the right, while nailing us whites later, and while purging his black opposition.
The bottom line: All Blacks want to take us down, either now or later. Personally, I’m game for right *NOW*. But later is also fine – its just more boring – but then again, we have longer to prepare. We also have longer where they can wear us down and drive more of us off our land and out of our jobs. Jan]
South Africa desperately needed new leadership to change the environment in the ruling African National Congress, the tripartite alliance, and society, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said on Thursday.
“We are not seeking a messiah,” Vavi said in a public lecture delivered at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
“Ultimately, it is the power of collective action and disciplined organisation that changes things. So Cosatu does not believe that this or that individual or collective alone is capable of changing society.
“The masses of our people must remain at the centre of our transformation agenda,” he said.
| ‘We are not seeking a messiah’ |
The lecture was facilitated by the Platform on Public Deliberations and was part of a series entitled “Towards a Common Future: Conversations on Leadership”.
Vavi said Cosatu had repeatedly pointed out why it thought the first decade of democracy had favoured capital in economic terms. It had further declared that the second decade had to belong to the workers and the poor.
“Under this situation, it is our view that the only way to succeed is to build the independent power of the working class; build a united ANC; and to ensure the alliance is the centre that drives transformation.”
Many of the controversies in the alliance emanated from “near-autocratic” handling of sensitive policy questions and the marginalisation of the ANC and the alliance from policy development and formulation, he said.
“In this context, the politics of scare-mongering, fear and patronage replaced the rich democratic traditions that are the hallmarks of our movement.”
Cosatu had noted that ANC leadership was increasingly becoming capitalist, that the party was dominated by cadres drawn from the state, and that its working class leadership had been weakened.
The Congress acknowledged that only ANC members would have the right to elect leaders at the party’s 52nd National Conference in December.
“Cosatu’s interest in the conference is informed by our selfish interest to retain the ANC as a progressive left movement biased towards the working class,” said Vavi.
“Further, we have an interest to ensure that it pursues a far bolder programme to transform our society from its colonial basis.”
In a draft resolution put forward at a Cosatu central committee meeting last month, ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma was recommended as ANC president.
Among the other five names submitted as possible candidates for the ANC National Executive Committee were Kgalema Motlanthe as deputy president and Gwede Mantashe as secretary-general.
Vavi said new leadership would not make Cosatu any less critical, but it hoped for one sympathetic to its cause, and which helped unify the movement and the alliance.
It would work with the new leadership, even if it did not include those people Cosatu had identified.
“However, our members have made a serious call that it cannot be business as usual in the alliance and on the policy front,” he said.
“We need policies to accelerate transformation and ensure large-scale empowerment of our people through jobs, redistribution of assets and income and other poverty eradication strategies.”‘
The ANC conference would either build a strong, united and progressive movement or begin to dig the grave of “this glorious movement of our people”, he said. – Sapa
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20071004224042877C442481