Dear Bishop Waters Toboti, Sorry for coming back to you after a long pause.

Some of us are still looking forward to have your advice, guidance, and of course still poised to heed your call. Your wisdom and seniority will ever be cherished. Yes, it took some time before I could respond. The delay is based on the delicacy and complexity of the forth coming National Congress of the PAC of Azania, scheduled to take place on the 14th to the 15th of July 2012. I read both; the President Letlapa Mphahle response of the 27th June 2012 and the most honourable Dagama Kontyo Mngqibisa member of the PAC since 1959- , founding affidavit against Letlapa Mphahlele of 29th May 2012. I would be dishonest to claim here that I have understood everything, nitty-gritties and sophistries of the legal terminology. I would not even attempt to summarise the two contending views, because the legal verbosity (possible misinterpretations) and obvious consternation, might see me once more being prejudiced and therefore victimised. Fear is the beginning of our demise! I however want to single few issues around the DECREE, with an intention of wanting to spark the real political debate outside the court disputes, and I believe that both (President Letlapa Mphahle and the long serving honourable member of the PAC, Mo-Afrika Dagama) would concur with my view that the cause, nature, form and content of dispute is primarily political and less litigious. People might be forced to go to court to settle irreparable and irreversible conflicts. Do we need the court to settle scores on our behalf ? I doubt! Hence my attempt to venture into this most disheartining, disturbing and distressing exercise with the hope of democratising and broadening the debate as to the current status of our beloved organisation; the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania. Out of the entire load ( Mphahle = 60 pages) and ( Dagama = 93 pages), I will single out what I regard to be pivotal, the DECREE. The virgin presidential decree was unleashed on the 26th September 2007, and following the event, this was caused by the infamous Floor Crossing enablement, with the losers referring to it as a process facilitating the deserting of their parties. If ever the presidential decree had any effect, then it should be evaluated again its success of reversing the Floor Crossing. History is full of examples of members of the PAC resigning, some establishing their own parties, but non of them coming back to the mother body as a result of the decree. In such a scenario, the DECREE felt short of its objective, dismally failed to resuscitate the mother body, and the PAC plunged and disintegrated into the Randerscheinung, the periphery that projected it as an insignificant former ghost of itself.

On the 13th February 2012, the second declaration of the degree shattered the residue of little hope that the PAC might have had, and learned that the decrees exacerbate and deepened the wedge between the general membership with the incumbent President, Letlapa Mphahlele. The justification thereof was devastating and mind boggling at the same time Be informed that the Cape Town High Court has refused to rescind the order if granted to Dr. S.E. Motsoko Pheko on 23rd April 2009. This order nullified the constitution amended at Fort Hare and the congresss confirmation of Dr Phekos expulsion. The meaning of this ruling is that the PAC resumes the status quo before the Fort Hare congress, that is: We resume rule by decree wherein the Constitution remains suspended Dr Pheko remain expelled but will be afforded the opportunity to appeal at our next congress (PAC internal memorandum of 13th February. 2012..

One would like to believe the Presidential Decree has been influenced by the court order, but somewhere we were lectured that it was necessitated by the internal crises. One of the most reputable Africanist once remarked: Letlapa Mphahlele reminds me of many religious sermons where the preacher selectively cites from the Bible and interprets scriptures in order to support or rationalises their point, carefully omitting any that may point otherwise. With pride and confidence President Letlapa Mphahlele cites the judgment of Mr Justice Rampai of the Free State High Court, which ruled in favour of him, but he would .respectfully submit that the Court should not intervene in this matter which aught properly to be governed by the Constitution of the PAC (Letlapa response papers 27 June 2012, p.22) Lack of consistency? Some young militants marveled Letlapa Mphahlele when he decided not to appear at the Truth and Reconcilation Commission (TRC), for he did not want to tried by the tribunal that had no revolutionary bearing. In the same breath, he might as well continued on the same path by rejecting both the Free State Court ruling as much as he is determined to avert the founding of comrade Manqibisa in the High Court of South Africa, Case no 10453/12. Given the delicacy and seriousness of the current court proceedings, we would not like to travilise his involvement as the Director of the Fourie Foundation, the lion turned a lamb catastrophy. The two documents, Letlapa response papers and Mngibisa founding, are well written, well thought out and therefore sound to be truthful and authentic. It depends which document you choose to read. Notwithstanding their appeal to the reader, they are diametrically and antagonistically opposed to each other, hence the need of an arbiter. Since the dispute is primarily political, it therefore calls for broad based debates, political intervention and solution. This is one humble attempt to address the need and outcome of the DECREE.

Do we need some more DECREES? President Letlapa Mphahlele will go down the annuls of history as one of the most brave and ambitious former soldier (Freedom Fighter), who wanted to unite his party but reaped a DECREE and a DECREE, a DECREE after another. In this regard his contribution will be regarded as astonishingly outstanding, because none of his predecessors were associated with his iron rule like he is eager to declare, perhaps immediately after the Butterworth Congress, an other DECREE. Alone the reasons given for the declaration of the DECREE, the cause thereof and the missing evaluation, seem to be suggesting that the initiators of the DECREE never had in mind to solve what they call the crises within the PAC, instead cement and strengthen their hold to power, perhaps indefinitely. It is also apparent that the declaration of the DECREE has never addressed its target: purging out factionalism. Today the party is more divided than it was before the declaration of DECREES. President Letlapa Maphahlele reiterates and inflationary states that he wields POWER, and if further-on pushed into a tied corner, he might discipline what he refer to as the dissidents, comrade Dagama Mangqibisi included. You better comply and rush to the Butterworth Congress for you might be confronted with the total wrath of the incumbent President of the PAC, so we are made to understand. I truly believe that the reincarnation of the once powerful movement, the PAC, will be ensured by the high level of political awareness, first and for most, of its members, that would translate into the establishment of branches, and depending on their strength, would be automatically usher into the equally strong regions. The rest will follow! This anticipated growth, both in numbers and in its political poignancy, will be facilitated by the highly desired clarity, transparency and out-right democratic principles and implementations thereof. President Letlapa Mphahle would be best advised to consult, call all the PAC members to the conference, ironed out the prevalent differences, where policies could be debated and formulated before the call to attend the CONGRESS could ever be tentalised. President Letlapa Mphahlele makes the point when he rejects the urgency as it is presented in the Mngqibisa Founding document, but would not explain as to what urgency that has propelled him to go the Butter-Worth congress, given disgruntlement, disillusionment and confusion amongst the PAC members. By Pule Maqekoane 07 July 2012