[DEBATE] : Gender parity

[Dominic Tweedie]

You mean Comrade Kojak and Comrade Columbo?

I know those comrades!

Stalwarts they are!

Yours in struggle for permanent revolution!

Domza, VC


On 31/01/2008, Vincent Darracq <v.darracq at ifas.org.za> wrote:
> I've just asked Kojak and Columbo to bring you the names...
>
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> De: debate-bounces at debate.kabissa.org de la part de Dominic Tweedie
> Date: jeu. 1/31/2008 12:46
> À: debate: SA discussion list
> Objet : Re: RE : RE : [DEBATE] : Gender parity
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> My dear, you have to give the names - the names of the individuals who spoke.
>
> Voting at an ANC conference (or COSATU) is not by mandate, it is by delegate.
>
> You will invariably find, for example, SACP members on either side of
> any question. The same must surely be true of the ANCYL.
>
> There are caucuses, but it is not certain that delegates will be ruled
> by the caucus. You could go and listen to a caucus, and then go to a
> commission, and try to work out who was breaking ranks with the
> caucus. But it does not tell you very much.
>
> You must give names. It does not make sense to say: "YL delegates who
> spoke during the gender parity debate at the Policy Conference
> unambiguously positioned themselves against it."
>
> You can't know whether or not there were other YL members present who
> did not speak but who are not "unanimous" with the ones who did speak.
> "Unanimous" is not the right word to use in such circumstances.
>
> In struggle,
>
> VC
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>
> On 31/01/2008, Vincent Darracq <v.darracq at ifas.org.za> wrote:
> > What I know is that YL delegates who spoke during the gender parity debate at
>
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