Introduction to the BULGSA Website

Fellow BULGSA members: I feel greatly privileged that we were never left behind in this era of information technology. That sense of privilege, which will stay with us for all time, is intensified by our recognition of the fact that never before have we, BULGSA, had a website.

I thank you most sincerely for your continued support which itself constitutes a tribute to the general membership and a profound statement of hope that all of us will, together, continue to expand the frontier of human dignity by being champions of workers’ rights. This could only be achieved by having tools that could allow for a comprehensive cross-pollination of information and its storage. BULGSA website is one of such a tool meant to avail information into our homes, offices and/or Internet cafes.

This is necessitated by the stubborn fact that information and knowledge are nuts and bolts for one to enjoy and celebrate his/her existence under the sun and/or exploring multiple opportunities for widening our horizons and establishing a towering and lofty reputation for our good organisation. As the sun continues to rise to banish the darkness of the long years as an association, what the new light over our land must show is an organisation diligently at work to create conducive conditions for the birth of a trade union.

What it must show is a palpable process of the comprehensive unionisation of our association-driven by the enormous talents of our members and made possible by the knowledge and realisation that we share a common destiny. We should not be discouraged by the recognition that the road is very long, the inclines too steep.

In order to make the website platitudinous a talking point dubbed “Mmualebe”, which will accord our members and any other interested person to candidly exchange their noble views, has been included. With the inclusion of the above, our website would be a nourished intellectual ground from which rigorous tests and meticulous scrutiny of contemporary issues directly or indirectly affecting our lives and society would be debated. It is therefore hoped that this would accord you the opportunity to break silence into countless invisible pieces, thus living to the words of Emilio Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, “it is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees”.

Moshe Noga
BULGSA Publicity Secretary