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[Michael Pugliese]

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Where to after the ANC's 51's National Congress
From: Floyd
Date: 12/18/2002
Time: 12:01:19 PM
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I feel ample contentment as I cogitate about the fact that the liberation 
struggle vanguard or our country's ruling party indulged another national 
congress as from the 16th of December 2002. This contentment is intesified 
when one recalls that this is the second national congress to be held by 
the ANC since the democratic dawn in our land. Above and over that, one 
evokes the verity that we are approaching the centenary of the National 
Congress, counting the decades the Congress moved through. They were indeed 
decades of relentless and unremming struggle and quests for better life in 
our land. However, we ought to look at the immediate near future of the 
Congress. Particularly the Congress' bond and amity with its allies. 
Beginning with the exclusion of the leadership core of the SACP and Cosatu 
on the ANC NEC, we can realise that the amity is heading for bleakness and 
drabness. Another issue will be on the restructuring of assets stance, 
which seems as if the government(the ANC) is not prepared to change. Thus 
we ought to be critical as to whether the SACP and COATU will keep on 
coercing and pestering their friend to adopt policies, which will satisfy 
their ideological passion. Will the relationship mean that the SACP and 
COSATU serve as nominal partners, in that their voices will not be heard, 
louder as they might be. Is the partnership (alliance) tantamount to 
customary marriage, where spouses occupy a position of subservience? With 
The ANC being the Husband and the spouses?, we all know... HIV/AIDS 
Treatment? Will the ANC retreat its position? This is indeed one of the 
thormy isuues. THE FUTURE OF THE ALLIANCE IS SHAKY AND WOBBLY. THIS IS NOT 
A PROPHECY OF DOOM. WE OUGHT TO BE REALISTIC ON THESE ISSUES. Otherwise, I 
pause. Hey I'm tired man, I've to go. Eeeesh!!!

Last changed: December 18, 2002

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Michael Pugliese