POLITICAL LECTURE AND LEADERSHIP TRAINING
Conducted by:Thatoyaone Moepetsane
THEME:MEMBER AND LEADERSHIP WITHOUT POLITICAL UNDERSTANDING IS DANGEROUS TO THE REVOLUTION.
"BACK TO BASIC, FROM INTENTION TO ACTION"
BUILDING CONSCIOUS ACADEMICS TO ADVANCE THE FREEDOM CHARTER !!!
POLITICAL LECTURE
COngress of South African Students was established in June 1979 ad a national organization to represent the interests of black school students in the wake of the Soweto uprising. COSAS organized students from secondary and high school. As well as technical, teacher training and correspondence colleges. Soon after their formation, the organization set up branches in the Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Transvaal, Orange Free State and Natal. This organization was established to campaign the interests of black school students, COSAS is the first organization to adopt the freedom charter. Other students organizations also assisted COSAS with establishing its branches in their areas.
COSAS first president was Cde Ephraim Mogale who was African National Congress member and was later to be convicted of furthering the aims of African National Congress, at the time of its formation the African National Congress was banned along other liberation movement under the unlawful Act. A guiding principle for COSAS was the view that the African National Congress was authentic liberation movement of South Africa.
In first two years COSAS took up two commemorative campaigns that authorities as ANC-supporting; the 1979 hanging of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) guerrilla Cde Solomon (Kalusha) Mahlangu and centenary of Zulu victory over British troops at Isandhlwana.
We us COSAS members we must join the African National Congress if we have 18 years and above, but if you have 14 years and above you can join ANC Youth League and YCL-SA, if you Anti-ANC that means you dangerous and you will always oppose organizational aim to rescue African National Congress and its leadership. We as COSAS members and leadership we must start to learn that branch is the basic unity of the organization. Our tusk is to mobilize learners to join our progressive organization.
COSAS recognized that Bantu Education was aimed at controlling and indoctrinating youth and that could change only by transforming the country's entire political system. Although it was primarily education focused, COSAS identified the relationship between educational and social transformation in its statement of beliefs:
> Students must be organized through democratically elected SRC's that known as RCL's nowadays in the schools.
> Students must serve the community, we are members of society before we are students and thereby show that students can play a progressive role in a broad democratic alliance.
> In serving the community, there must be a recognition that students play only a limited role in the overall struggle.
>The duty of the students was to lend support to trade unions and community organizations.
In 1982, COSAS adopted the theme; "Students-worker action" and promoted the formation of youth congresses to serve the interests of young workers and unemployed youth. These facilitated cooperation between school students, young workers and the unemployed youth. This had the dual effect of drawing COSAS into issues which affected young workers and the unemployed youth and drawing the congresses into school-related struggles. The organization provided essential support to striking workers and community struggles around issues such as transport increases, rent hikes and other issues concerning society and students in general.
We as COSAS leadership here in Sebetwane our duty is to rescue t young teachers that we have in our school teachers like Mr Lenner and Ms Lepedi and conscioutise them so that they will assist us to take COSAS forward. Also Thuso Thebe they must conscioutise young teachers that side so that they will help you to take your sub-branch forward. But not leave struggle in their hands alone.
LEADERSHIP TRAINING
Good leadership do heard rumors but do not act on rumors, Leadership born not made, you not elected because you famous but you elected because you have capacity and capability to lead organization. Good leadership knows that agreement reached through a process of discussion and debate is effective than agreement reached without discussion and debate and for my understanding leadership must have followers. You cannot lead organization by using your commonsense, you must guided by constitution and other documents. You can use your commonsense but that cannot make political sense and you cannot lead organization as if you runs supermarket. We must not be dictatorship but leadership and we must be loyal to the organization because if you loyal to me is another story. Good leadership treat all members equally.
We cannot have leadership that go around night woke municipal mayer demand money and transport for their personal gains, which is misconduct, we cannot afford to lead by that type of leadership that is power hunger and abuse power. I hope we will never electe that type of leadership again because their nothing but trouble to the revolution, we cannot lead by counter revolution, leadership that cause havoc that type of leadership is threat to the revolution. I didn't mean to hurt anyone but this is nothing but truth we cannot afford to lead by the following comrades: Cde Malebogo Lethobeng and Cde Moreetse Mosimaneeng.
TATA Madiba said I quote "our generation fought against apartheid regim. The generation of now have the responsibility to fight against liberation and defend democracy".
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Thatoyaone Moepetsane
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