Party building the only option that can unite PAC
SONS and daughters of Azania, allow me to express my pain concerning things that are not right in our organisation, the PAC. My pain is that there is no unity.
The reason for our not being united in the PAC is the division, or factionalism, caused by the people pushing the politics of stomach within the organisation. These people don’t care about policies, programmes, manifestos, and the principles (aims and objectives) of the PAC.
They care only about themselves or Parliament politics. They call congresses to advance their stomach politics of a chartists parliament.
But they have failed to follow in the footsteps of the first leadership of the PAC of 1958, 1960, 1970 and 1980 or, for example, the leadership of the PAC of 1958 – such as the founders of the Pan Africanist congress of Azania who were elected as members of the national executive council on April 6, 1959.
They were: Founding PAC President Professor Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe; Secretary General Potlako K Leballo; A B Ngcobo, treasurer; A P Mda Patron; Howard Ngcobo, special organiser for Natal (killed on duty on the eve of the anti-pass campaign now known as the Sharpeville Uprising); J D Nyawose, Secretary for Labour; Elliot Mfaxa, national organiser; Z B Molete, Secretary for Information and Publicity; Peter Molotsi, Secretary for Pan African Affairs; Selby Ngendane, Secretary for Foreign Affairs; Hughes Hlatshwayo, Secretary for Commerce; others like Nana Mahomo, Secretary for Culture; Zephania Mothopeng, Secretary for Legal Affairs; Peter N Raboroko, secretary for Education.
These PAC leaders are believed to have been the unifying party builders who are now no longer in the minds or thinking of today’s leadership.
As the regional organiser of Greater Khayelitsha, I believe unity and party building is the only solution to building a united PAC. Leadership must not be for individuals, but must be a collective leadership for promoting Pan Africanism, black consciousness, African identity, African Scientific Socialism, Africanist Socialist Democracy, self-definition, self-reliance and self-acceptance. Nyameko Sinandile