A statement issued by AZAYO NEC on Mkhaya Ntini's retirement from international cricket
Sibongile Somdaka
PRESS RELEASE
MAKHAYA MDINGI NTINI IS A SYMBOL OF BLACK EXCELLENCE
For Immediate release:
Wednesday: 3 November 2010
All: Political Editors
The Azanian Youth Organisation (AZAYO) wishes to take this opportunity to pay tribute to Makhaya Ntini. Makhaya’s mercurial rise to world superstardom is an achievement in which all South Africans should share, especially black young people, who have aspirations to become world class sports athletes.
Like many black athletes the world over, his rise also revealed that, there are still those who would do everything in their power to ensure that, black young athletes don’t achieve anything worthwhile. However, despite the many obstacles that were placed in his path, Makhaya remained steadfast and smashed every record there was to beat.
AZAYO will therefore remember Makhaya Ntini as one of the world’s best fast bowlers, an incredible athlete, who gave a lot to his community, and definitely, a towering symbol black of excellence.
Issued by: AZAYO NEC
For more information:
Veli Mbele
AZAYO National President
082 351 4074
Or
Sibongile Somdaka
National Spokesperson
072 573 2193
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:09:23 +0200
Subject: THE POLITICAL CONTEXT FOR THE 18 TH AZAYO CONGRESS 2010.pdf
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Chris Swepu
Well done towers. This is how you create a living organisation. Nothing of significance must pass without South Africans knowing what your views are.
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Let me also congratulate cde Hebtein for his march. It was in most online media houses and SABC radio stations. This is a spirit we need as we approach local government elections.
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Towers
I just wanna share with you my experience today. I had my AZAPO GOLF SHIRT ON. The beautiful comments that were made by colleagues were very interesting ,much to my own surprised. Not that it was for the first time they saw me in AZAPO regalia. I had thought ordinary people have consigned AZAPO into history and complete oblivion. Others reminded me about the importance of the BC philosophy, we stand for. Some chose to remind me of the February22 2009 event when AZAPO in Mziwandile Mcoseli stormed the election indaba held in NMMU, that left tongues wagging in the entire country. Our debate then changed into how unfair authorities were, in the media fraternity, when they denied AZAPO space to state its views to the then electorate.
Towers this movement refuses to die in the minds of the people. We may not be the blue, rather brown eyed boys of the day. But certainly our day shall come! And please when that day comes, we must make good of that opportunity. Not without hard work offcourse.
This country is going straight to the dogs, believe it or not.
AZNIA SHALL PREFAIL AZAPO SHALL RULE IN THIS LAND!!
Fanisile Cingci
Inspiring words Cde Phakade, thank you very much...
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From: Monwabisi Maswana
Sent: 03 November 2010 12:07 PM
To: Simphiwe Mtukwana; Zola Masala; mogamat daniels
Subject: FW: The Big Read: The open letter businessman Kenny Kunene
wrote to Cosatu general secretary Zwelinz
Dear Kenny Kunene:
Rather than walk tall, you should hide yourself in shame
I saw your letter responding to comrade Zwelinzima Vavi. I must admit, your
response was theoretically weak and on many counts factually misguided. Instead
of responding to Vavi you chose the well known trick which is that of shifting
the goal-posts by casting aspersions at the sincerity of your adversary. Your
statements prove that indeed the black capitalist class serves nothing but the
continuation of class apartheid. Rather than prove your innocence, you proved
the arrogance with which you pursue your accumulation agenda and the extent to
which greed and attempts to emulate white capitalists are the locomotive of
your accumulation path, when you say: “White people threw big parties every day
when I was a poor young black man. They are still throwing parties...I look up
to many of them.”
Rest assured Mr Kunene, you are not the only arrogant rich South African.
The stench of petty bourgeois greed has already suffocated progressive morality
in our society giving way not only to rampant accumulation by to lavish
lifestyles pursued by a privileged minority with brazen impunity, in the face
of grinding poverty for the majority. In fact there are many like you, black
and white whose names will have to be exposed as part of the struggle against
the apartheid capitalist system and particularly the predatory elite that uses
its blackness to accumulate and when criticized calls for its critics to look
at its white counterparts instead. It is naked carelessness for you to think
that there is nothing wrong with starving the whole country in order to serve
the lavish tastes of a few connected capitalists, black or white. Apart from
the fact that your accumulation is shameful, your arrogance shows a middle
finger to the poor whose exploitation and subjugation you support and
encourage. Your arrogance and that of your ilk makes me sick.
You must have a nerve to even think you are so correct such that you
believe you “should not have to defend what” you “spend” your money on”. Damn
well you have to defend what you spend your money on. Particularly if your
wealth arises out of millions, you and your ilk siphon daily from poor workers
in your employ and elsewhere, some of who struggle to make ends meet in order
to ensure that you and your ilk can go around throwing lavish parties. Maybe
you may not answer to Vavi, but you will one day bear the wrath of the working
class when it expropriates your wealth and that of your ilk and demolishes you
together with this barbaric capitalist economic system, that has brought
nothing but poverty and destitution for the great majority of our people.
You have the nerve to say: “I have been to more than 2000 schools telling
kids that they can drive sports cars, live in luxury houses, wear designer
clothes and throw big parties.” Did you tell those school kids that this was
just a statement to make them feel good, the fact is that many of those kids
will not even make it to institutions of higher learning because of the poverty
you and your ilk inflict on their parents, as workers, daily? Were you even
honest enough to tell those kids that they will only be able to do that unless
they are able to benefit from the BEE gravy train on which many black
capitalists ride? I for one, like many student leaders, certainly do not want
to follow your footsteps to opulence particularly if this includes gaining
profit at the expense of the poor and later claim that it is providing
employment opportunities. We will do all in our capacity to tell students to
ignore this irresponsible message you have been feeding to them even if this
means we must stomp the length and breadth of the country undoing the damage that
you have already done to the minds of poor working class families.
You must be a brave man to even have the audacity of defending your choice
of naked women who have had to bare their bodies to serve food at your party. Rather
than prove your innocence you shift the goalposts by suggesting that Vavi is in
your words “no stranger to the good life, as you had a lavish wedding two years
ago, with horse-drawn carriages no less.” I’m sure you know that “horse-drawn
carriages” can in no way be equated to images of naked women paraded around by
arrogant wealthy patriarchs, such as you. The question begs an answer, why is
it that in your party it was not men but women who were naked? Does this not
show your disdain for women and their continued oppression under a patriarchal
capitalist system? Your behaviour shows ignorance to the fact that the class
position of many women often makes them vulnerable to the might of economically
powerful men such as you.
How do you go to sleep knowing that your economic development hinges on the
poverty of the majority whose economic situation is sabotaged by your economic
system (capitalism)? How do you go to sleep in your posh house with your lavish
cars parked outside while you know that hundreds of thousands neither have food
for supper nor do they have any knowledge what they would wake up and eat the
next morning simply because you, the capitalists, amass all the wealth to
yourselves while leaving the great majority living in squalor in order for them
to occasionally benefit from your philanthropy? How do you sleep in huge houses
when the great majority of South Africans cannot even afford a roof on top of
their heads? Only those who lack even an iota of morality and compassion would
continue to enjoy their lavish lifestyles while the great majority of South
Africans suffer in poverty, and remain proud of themselves, as you are. Rather
than walk tall, you should hide yourself in shame.
Do not worry Mr. Kunene, communists are not opposed to big cars, posh
houses and lavish lifestyles. Our problem is that under capitalism these are
reserved for a minority which is ruthless enough to rise up the economic ladder
on the backs of the poor majority. The existence, under capitalism of these for
some is therefore a pre-condition for the poverty of others. These posh cars
and houses you are so proud about can only be enjoyed by a minority under
capitalism whilst the great majority struggle to even put a roof on top of
their heads. That is why, we communists have no other interest than to see the
destruction of capitalist relations of production, the destruction of the
capitalist state and their replacement with socialism. In defeating capitalism,
we will not request your permission, you and your ilk will be torn asunder
together with your economic system.
Progressive morality in our society has to be defended against wolves of
the capitalist market dressed in sheep-skin who claim to be innocent
by-standers who only wish to enjoy the fruits of their hard work. These wolves
of the capitalist market spend all their time in lavish parties and golf
estates doing nothing whilst the great majority of working class South Africans
are forced to wake up in the morning rush to work under difficult and at times
life-threatening situations only to be paid peanuts at the end of the day. Our
society is one of the most unequal societies in the world and contributors to
this are both the black and white elite. We should spare no effort in exposing
this even if this draws the venom of the black bourgeoisie which is fond of
claiming jealousy whenever it is criticized.
It is suggested that on the eve of the French revolution, Queen Mary
Antoinette sneered at the dire need for bread by French citizens and derisively
suggested that they “should eat cake” instead, which they did not have. The
results of this shook the very foundations of aristocratic rule in France.
Those who live in opulence and dismiss timid calls such these calls by COSATU
against conspicuous consumption must know that the working class will one day
move beyond this timidity and shake the very foundations of this economic
system, and stop requesting for crumbs such as employment opportunities.
Oh. Good luck with your “follow-up party this coming weekend for the
underprivileged and poor” who will remain poor long after attending your party
because that follow-up party is not about them but is to showcase your
ill-gotten wealth. And I mean ill-gotten, because the capitalist system is
premised on legalizing corruption and thuggery which passes off as profit. The
continued extraction of value from workers which passes off as profit
constitutes an unpardonable sin against the poor whose punishment will one day
surpass any that have been inflicted on human kind before. As you go on with
your party which is meant to besmirch the working class, some of us will be
plotting how to overthrow this barbaric capitalist system and replace it with
socialism.
A Luta Continua
Lazola Ndamase (SASCO Secretary General) writes in his personal capacity.