The motion of no-confidence that failed for the eighth time against the President of the republic inspired this correspondence.
In a platonic relationship, the experience of infidelity is one of piercing betrayal. Imagine what happens in a political relationship within a party that has committed itself to serving the people and to never again handing this country to a minority.
Imagine the sense of betrayal that is surely felt when 25 of their own members of parliament almost hand power to the opposition forces.
What concerns me most is that this act of sabotage by these suicide bombers of note was widespread.
The ANC in the Dr WB Rubusana Metro region also experienced the collusion and right-wing collaboration of its deployees to council when those deployees voted against the ANC in council.
Hegel, in his book Shorter Logic (1830), says “The word ‘reality’ is used to mean that something behaves conformably to its essential characteristic or notion. For example, we use the expression: ‘This is a real man’. Here, the term does not merely mean outward and immediate existence: but rather that some existence agrees with its notion. In this sense, reality is not distinct from ideality.”
To put this into more modern terms, those who were sent to parliament on the ANC ticket were sold idealistic ambitions which were far removed from reality.
And in their quest to remove President Jacob Zuma from power, they became temporarily detached from the reality that what they were doing was trying to dislodge the ANC from power, unwittingly.
One has to understand the contemporary and classical history of the South African liberation struggle to fully grasp the depth of the betrayal of the councillors who voted in collusion with the DA.
One wonders what would have happened had that dissent and the political and moral disciplinary challenges not been arrested at the time they were.
The same comrades were prepared to let their internal organisational differences spill over into council. This gave an unnecessary advantage to the opposition forces. For a while, the opposition thought it would exploit these differences and dislodge the ANC from power.
In future, the ANC must screen those it deploys to positions of responsibility.
Our struggle history is littered with figures who sold out. These should always serve as a reference point for how far we have come in this revolution.
It is public knowledge that ANC members voted against the ANC and with the DA in the council meeting in the matter of the acting municipal manager.
In my attempt to re-conscientise them, I borrow from Leon Trotsky writing on the Russian revolution of 1917: “In our eyes, individual terror is inadmissible precisely because it belittles the role of the masses in their own consciousness, reconciles them to their own powerlessness, and turns their eyes and hopes towards a great avenger and liberator who someday will come and accomplish his mission.”
The opposition is the prime enemy. There is no strategic alliance that any member of the ANC or its deployees can enter into without compromising themselves. There are no forgivable tactical alliances or justifiable actions that can render us able to enter into any alliance with them. That must be established. The enemy remains an enemy. It does not change its spots.
To further elucidate on the depths to which these comrades were willing to go, many of them did not renew their membership of the party. In the recent audit for the ANC provincial conference, many of them were no longer audited members in good standing. Some are ward councillors and some are proportional representation councillors.
This brings into question the motive of their recent actions.
If we were to properly analyse the matter, one would be hard pressed not to admit to a plan to disembowel the ANC from within, planned elsewhere.
The evidence is there. Comrades have voted with the DA both in the National Assembly and in our metropolitan council.
The ANC in the region must clean house to send a strong signal to aspiring dissidents that no form of collusion or collaborating with the enemy will be tolerated.
Xolani Somaca ANC Raymond Mhlaba branch (Ward 17) member in good standing, Dr WB Rubusana Metro region
Loyalty always to ANC
In a platonic relationship, the experience of infidelity is one of piercing betrayal. Imagine what happens in a political relationship within a party that has committed itself to serving the people and to never again handing this country to a minority.
Imagine the sense of betrayal that is surely felt when 25 of their own members of parliament almost hand power to the opposition forces.
What concerns me most is that this act of sabotage by these suicide bombers of note was widespread.
The ANC in the Dr WB Rubusana Metro region also experienced the collusion and right-wing collaboration of its deployees to council when those deployees voted against the ANC in council.
Hegel, in his book Shorter Logic (1830), says “The word ‘reality’ is used to mean that something behaves conformably to its essential characteristic or notion. For example, we use the expression: ‘This is a real man’. Here, the term does not merely mean outward and immediate existence: but rather that some existence agrees with its notion. In this sense, reality is not distinct from ideality.”
To put this into more modern terms, those who were sent to parliament on the ANC ticket were sold idealistic ambitions which were far removed from reality.
And in their quest to remove President Jacob Zuma from power, they became temporarily detached from the reality that what they were doing was trying to dislodge the ANC from power, unwittingly.
One has to understand the contemporary and classical history of the South African liberation struggle to fully grasp the depth of the betrayal of the councillors who voted in collusion with the DA.
One wonders what would have happened had that dissent and the political and moral disciplinary challenges not been arrested at the time they were.
The same comrades were prepared to let their internal organisational differences spill over into council. This gave an unnecessary advantage to the opposition forces. For a while, the opposition thought it would exploit these differences and dislodge the ANC from power.
In future, the ANC must screen those it deploys to positions of responsibility.
Our struggle history is littered with figures who sold out. These should always serve as a reference point for how far we have come in this revolution.
It is public knowledge that ANC members voted against the ANC and with the DA in the council meeting in the matter of the acting municipal manager.
In my attempt to re-conscientise them, I borrow from Leon Trotsky writing on the Russian revolution of 1917: “In our eyes, individual terror is inadmissible precisely because it belittles the role of the masses in their own consciousness, reconciles them to their own powerlessness, and turns their eyes and hopes towards a great avenger and liberator who someday will come and accomplish his mission.”
The opposition is the prime enemy. There is no strategic alliance that any member of the ANC or its deployees can enter into without compromising themselves. There are no forgivable tactical alliances or justifiable actions that can render us able to enter into any alliance with them. That must be established. The enemy remains an enemy. It does not change its spots.
To further elucidate on the depths to which these comrades were willing to go, many of them did not renew their membership of the party. In the recent audit for the ANC provincial conference, many of them were no longer audited members in good standing. Some are ward councillors and some are proportional representation councillors.
This brings into question the motive of their recent actions.
If we were to properly analyse the matter, one would be hard pressed not to admit to a plan to disembowel the ANC from within, planned elsewhere.
The evidence is there. Comrades have voted with the DA both in the National Assembly and in our metropolitan council.
The ANC in the region must clean house to send a strong signal to aspiring dissidents that no form of collusion or collaborating with the enemy will be tolerated.
Xolani Somaca ANC Raymond Mhlaba branch (Ward 17) member in good standing, Dr WB Rubusana Metro region
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