Message+from+Mazibuko+Jara

Message from Mazibuko Jara, 16-Feb-2007 13:28
=Please withdraw & apologise=


 * (In full)**

A member of your Communist University list sent me your posting for today which refers to me, my role in the DTCC, and so on. It is obvious that there is a political basis for your actions and statements concerning me. I will not deal with those in this email. I am writing to ask you to withdraw your false statements concerning me.

Your statements in the posting about me are false and malicious. I ask that you withdraw them publicly to the list. This is not to threaten you but just to correct your lies and your uncomradely conduct.

I also ask that you send this email to the list today. I will also write to the SACP Head Office, the SACP Johannesburg Central Branch and the DTCC Board to complain about your conduct and for them to consider taking appropriate action against you. It is extremely problematic that you consistently raise fairly sensitive information and internal SACP information in your very public and widely circulated list. I understand that the Gauteng SACP PEC and the SACP Johannesburg Central Branch have previously sought to call you to order in this regard. In my case, my concern is not only about the sensitive or confidential nature of some of the information but more actually about that your statements are not only false but also clearly calculated to cause malice and impugn my integrity and track record. This is unacceptable.

I also understand that many other postings you have sent to the list have previously impugned my character and spread false information about me.

Further, I just wish to correct some of the specific things you state in your posting as follows:

- If you had not lied about the reasons for my resignation from the DTCC Board, I would not be stating the in this public correspondence because the reasons are internal to the DTCC and not for public consumption. I am reluctantly summarising them here to clear the record. I did not resign from the DTCC Board because of my role in its founding and because of money problems in the DTCC as you claim in your posting. I resigned from the DTCC Board in April 2005 due to differing perspectives on the direction of the organisation and concerns about my load and role given other work I was doing in many other progressive organisations. The DTCC never had complaints against me concerning its monies and how they were managed. I am proud of my role and the effort I expended in its establishment, management and operations. I am not responsible for the state of the DTCC after I left as you suggest in your posting.

- I did not act as an unnamed source in the M&G story (16 Feb, Rumbles over Blade in the SACP). The journalist, Vicki Robinsion, called me yesterday and I asked for the questions in writing. I then answered her questions in writing. None of the other stuff in the story comes from me. You also say that I have consistently been a source for many stories on the SACP where I gossip about other people. I have never done that ever in my life. In my entire 5 years of working at the SACP HQ dealing with sensitive documents and information of the SACP CC and PB, there was not even one leak to the media from the SACP HQ.

- I am not trying to build my profile internationally as part of advancing my perspectives on internal SACP debates as you suggest in your posting. I am attending the Left Forum in New York as a public communist activist and I will make a presentation on the SA transition and its problems if you care to know. The Left Forum brings together about 2,000 left activists from across the board in the USA. It is an important platform to engage in. In your posting, you cite an email I sent to the SACP and COSATU international desks wherein I asked them for contacts of comrades in the US in light of my visit there. I can only wonder how you received it.

As to my "domineering, universal gatekeeper... [and] ... dictatorial position within the Party", that is a matter of your perception I will not bother to respond to. As for our personal different political perspectives and the political positions you hold in relation to me, those are matters that internal Party debate and political developments will address over time.

Comradely


 * Mazibuko**