A bid to stop ancly congress dismissed

  FILE PICTURE: ANC supporters. Picture: Neil McCartney
A last minute attempt by a group of disgruntled members of the ANC Youth League to stop the national congress from going ahead on Friday has failed.
Judge Moses Mavundla on Thursday evening ruled that the application by North West ANCYL members Thabo Molamu, Mbuyisela Booi, Gontse Marupeng and Papa Jood was not urgent.
The group alleged there had been non-compliance with the ANCYL’s constitution and the delegates set to attend were not a true reflection of the league in North West.
They alleged there had been irregular auditing of branches and that certain members were denied the opportunity to attend the congress in order to influence the outcome. They also complained about “gatekeeping” and signature campaigning.
The group wanted the court to suspend the conference pending the ANCYL complying with its constitution and its prescribed processes.
Advocate John Sullivan, who appeared for the applicants, argued that the conference should be
done democratically and those who attended must be democratically elected. The applicants raised disputes within the party structures, but complained that they received no answers. Sullivan argued that democratic principles were at stake and that the matter deserved the attention of the court.
Judge Mavundla said the respondents had not been able to file their papers because of the short notice of the applicant, but the applicants had submitted more than 200 pages.
All this information could not have been gathered in one day. They clearly gave themselves time to get ready. It cannot be said that the applicants did not know about the congress before Thursday, he said.
Judge Mavundla said in his view the issues brought up by the applicant was something they must have been aware of earlier.
He stressed that it must have taken a lot of resources to put together this congress and people were coming from all over South Africa to attend it. The applicants had months, but now came at the last minute, he added.
The Judge dismissed the application and ordered the applicants to pay the costs.
Delegates to the elective congress will choose between North West MEC for local government and human settlements Collen Maine, ANC national executive committee member and former ANCYL treasurer-general Pule Mabe, former league deputy president Ronald Lamola and ANCYL Tshwane regional chairperson Lesego Makhubela.
Maine is the strongest frontrunner with several provinces having voiced support for him. Mabe and Lamola were in the disbanded league’s national executive committee led by Julius Malema and those familiar with the dynamics of the league say this may work against them.
Political analyst Dr Somadoda Fikeni said: “It is unlikely another Malema will emerge from the ANCYL. The material to make an ANCYL president like Malema is scarce.”
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa address delegates at the elective congress.

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1956-women's march, pretoria 09 august

Strijdom, you have tampered with the women,You have struck a rock.'So runs the song composed to mark this historic occasion

9th August Union Buildings © Baileys Archives

By the middle of 1956 plans had been laid for the Pretoria march and the FSAW had written to request that JG Strijdom, the current prime minister, meet with their leaders so they could present their point of view. The request was refused.
The ANC then sent Helen Joseph and Bertha Mashaba on a tour of the main urban areas, accompanied by Robert Resha of the ANC and Norman Levy of the Congress of Democrats (COD). The plan was to consult with local leaders who would then make arrangements to send delegates to the mass gathering in August.
The Women's March was a spectacular success. Women from all parts of the country arrived in Pretoria, some from as far afield as Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. They then flocked to the Union Buildings in a determined yet orderly manner. Estimates of the number of women delegates ranged from 10 000 to 20 000, with FSAW claiming that it was the biggest demonstration yet held. They filled the entire amphitheatre in the bow of the graceful Herbert Baker building. Walker describes the impressive scene:
Many of the African women wore traditional dress, others wore the Congress colours, green, black and gold; Indian women were clothed in white saris. Many women had babies on their backs and some domestic workers brought their white employers' children along with them. Throughout the demonstration the huge crowd displayed a discipline and dignity that was deeply impressive (Walker 1991:195).
Neither the prime minister or any of his senior staff was there to see the women, so as they had done the previous year, the leaders left the huge bundles of signed petitions outside JG Strijdom's office door. It later transpired that they were removed before he bothered to look at them. Then at Lilian Ngoyi's suggestion, a masterful tactic, the huge crowd stood in absolute silence for a full half hour. Before leaving (again in exemplary fashion) the women sang ‘Nkosi sikeleli Afrika'. Without exception, those who participated in the event described it as a moving and emotional experience. The FSAW declared that it was a ‘monumental achievement'.
The significance of the Women's March must be analysed. Women had once again shown that the stereotype of women as politically inept and immature, tied to the home, was outdated and inaccurate. And as they had done the previous year, the Afrikaans press tried to give the impression that it was whites who had ‘run the show'. This was blatantly untrue. The FSAW and the Congress Alliance gained great prestige form the obvious success of the venture. The FSAW had come of age politically and could no longer be underrated as a recognised organisation – a remarkable achievement for a body that was barely 2 years old. The Alliance decided that 9 August would henceforth be celebrated as Women's Day, and it is now, in the new South Africa, commemorated each year as a national holiday.
Passes for African Women

The Government`s first attempts to force women to carry passes and permits had been a major fiasco. In 1913, government officials in the Orange Free State declared that women living in the urban townships would be required to buy new entry permits each month. In response, the women sent deputations to the Government, collected thousands of signatures on petitions, and organised massive demonstrations to protest the permit requirement. Unrest spread throughout the province and hundreds of women were sent to prison. Civil disobedience and demonstrations continued sporadically for several years. Ultimately the permit requirement was withdrawn. No further attempts were made to require permits or passes for African women until the 1950s. Although laws requiring such documents were enacted in 1952, the Government did not begin issuing permits to women until 1954 and reference books until 1956. The issuing of permits began in the Western Cape, which the Government had designated a "Coloured preference area". Within the boundaries established by the Government, no African workers could be hired unless the Department of Labour determined that Coloured workers were not available. Foreign Africans were to be removed from the area altogether. No new families would be allowed to enter, and women and children who did not qualify to remain would be sent back to the reserves. The entrance of the migrant labourers would henceforth be strictly controlled. Male heads of households, whose families had been endorsed out or prevented from entering the area, were housed with migrant workers in single-sex hostels. The availability of family accommodations was so limited that the number of units built lagged far behind the natural increase in population.
In order to enforce such drastic influx control measures, the Government needed a means of identifying women who had no legal right to remain in the Western Cape. According to the terms of the Native Laws Amendment Act, women with Section 10(1)(a), (b), or (c) status were not compelled to carry permits. Theoretically, only women in the Section 10(1)(d) category - that is, work-seekers or women with special permission to remain in the urban area - were required to possess such documents. In spite of their legal exemption, women with Section 10(1)(a), (b), and (c) rights were issued permits by local authorities which claimed that the documents were for their own protection. Any woman who could not prove her (a), (b), or (c) status was liable to arrest and deportation.
Soon after permits were issued to women in the Western Cape, local officials began to enforce the regulations throughout the Union. Reaction to the new system was swift and hostile. Even before the Western Cape was designated a "Coloured preference area", Africans were preparing for the inevitable. On January 4, 1953, hundreds of African men and women assembled in the Langa township outside Cape Town to protest the impending application of the Native Laws Amendment Act. Delivering a fiery speech to the crowd Dora Tamana, a member of the ANC Women’s League and a founding member of the Federation of South African Women, declared:

We, women, will never carry these passes. This is something that touches my heart. I appeal to you young Africans to come forward and fight. These passes make the road even narrower for us. We have seen unemployment, lack of accommodation and families broken because of passes. We have seen it with our men. Who will look after our children when we go to jail for a small technical offence -- not having a pass?

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WATHINTA ABAFAZI WATHINTA IMBOKODO!

South Africa commemorates Women’s Month in August.
Women’s Day (9 August) recalls the day in 1956 when women from all races and walks of life marched to the Union Buildings in protest against oppressive apartheid laws.
This historic march was a turning point in the role of women in the struggle for freedom and society at large. Since that eventful day, women from all walks of life became equal partners in the struggle for a non-racial and non-sexist South Africa.
The Women's Day commemoration will take place at Buffalo City stadium in East London on 9 August.
Government is organising activities throughout the country:

TRIGONOMETRY ANGLE QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

Trigonometry questions related to angles in standard position, coterminal angles, complementary and supplementary angles, as well conversion from degrees to radians and vice versa, are presented. The solutions and answers are provided.

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Questions 1: Graph - 435o in standard position. Solution to Question 1: Start from the initial side on the horizontal axis, positive direction, rotate 435 degrees in the negative direction to locate the terminal side which is in quadrant four. It helps to note that 435 degrees = 360 degrees + 75 degrees Questions 2: Graph 9 Pi / 4 in standard position. Solution to Question 2: Start from the initial side on the horizontal axis, positive direction, rotate 9 Pi / 4 (radians) in the positive direction to locate the terminal side which is in quadrant one. Note that 9 Pi / 4 = 2 Pi + Pi / 4. Questions 3: In which quadrant is the terminal side of an angle of - 3 Pi / 4 located? Solution to Question 3: The terminal side of - 3 Pi / 4 is located in quadrant three. Questions 4: In which quadrant is the terminal side of an angle of 750o located? Solution to Question 4: 750 degrees = 360 degrees + 360 degrees + 30 degrees. Hence an angle of 750 degrees, in standard position, has its terminal side in quadrant one. Questions 5: Find a coterminal angle t to angle - 27 Pi / 12 such that 0 <= t < 2 Pi. Solution to Question 5: We first note that - 27 Pi / 12 = -24 Pi / 12 - 3 Pi / 4 = - 2 Pi - 3 Pi / 4. A coterminal angle is obtained by adding or subtracting a whole number of 2 Pi (or 360 degrees). Hence a positive coterminal angle to - 27 Pi / 12 may be obtained by adding 2 (2 Pi) = 4 Pi. t = - 27 Pi / 12 + 4 Pi = 7 Pi / 4 Note that t is positive and smaller than 2 Pi.. Questions 6: Find an angle t that is coterminal to 560o such that 0 <= t < 360o. Solution to Question 6: Note that 560 degrees = 360 degrees + 200 degrees which is greater than 360 degrees. So to obtain a coterminal angle smaller than 360 degrees we need to subtract 360 degrees from 560 degrees. t = 560 degrees - 360 degrees = 200 degrees. Questions 7: Determine the complementary angle t to Pi / 12. Solution to Question 7: The complementary angle to Pi / 12 is obtained as follows t = Pi / 2 - Pi / 12 = 5 Pi / 12 Questions 8: Determine the complementary angle t to 34o. Solution to Question 8: The complementary angle t to 34 degrees is given by t = 90 degrees - 34 degrees = 56 degrees. Questions 9: Determine the supplementary angle t to 96o. Solution to Question 9: The supplementary angle t to 96 degrees is give by t = 180 degrees - 96 degrees = 84 degrees. Questions 10: Convert 75o to radians . Solution to Question 10: To convert from degrees to radians, we multiply by Pi and divide by 180. Hence 75 degrees in radians is given by 75 * Pi / 180 = 5 Pi / 12 = 1.31 (rounded to 2 decimal places) Questions 11: Convert 7 Pi / 4 to degrees . Solution to Question 11: To convert from radians to degrees, we multiply by 180 and divide by Pi. Hence 7 Pi / 4 in degrees is given by (7 Pi / 4) * 180 / Pi which simplifies to = 315 degrees. Questions 12: Convert 1.5 radians to degrees. Solution to Question 12: 1.5 radians into degrees is given by 1.5 * 180 / Pi = 85.94 degrees (rounded to 2 decimal places) Questions 13: Convert 61o 05' 12" to degrees in decimal form. Solution to Question 13: An angle of 61 degrees 5 minutes and 12 seconds in decimal form is given by 61 + 5 / 60 + 12 / 3600 = 61.07 (rounded to 2 decimal places). Questions 14: A central angle t of a circle with radius 2 meters subtends an arc of length 1.5 meters. Find angle t in degrees. Solution to Question 14: The use of the arc length formula s = r t where t is the angle (in radians) that subtends an arc of length s gives 1.5 = 2 t Solve for t to obtain t = 1.5 / 2 = 0.75 (radians) We now convert t in degrees t = 0.75 * 180 / Pi = 42.97 degrees (rounded to 2 decimal places)