Letter to the Editor |12 February 2015

Call for open tête-à-tête discussion on SBC TV

Your issue of yesterday morning (Wednesday February 11, 2015) carried within it two pertinent replies to the letter you published from me on February 10 in connection with the interview Mr Wavel Ramkalawan recently gave to the newspaper, TODAY in Seychelles.

The first letter is from Mr Christopher Lespoir, chairman of the Seychelles Young Leaders Association (SYLA), who found my letter very inspiring and went on to stress that Seychellois are fed up with politics based on violence, insult and hatred. Thank you Mr Lespoir for your “Seychelles First” reaction.

The second letter is of course from none other than Mr Wavel Ramkalawan himself. By so speedily responding to my letter, I, of course, convince myself that Mr Ramkalawan has never thought that I was “passé” within the context of Seychelles politics. At any rate, in his letter, Mr Ramkalawan queries certain discrepancies or factual points in my letter which you published, and finally converges on the notion, “we all want peace for our motherland”.

In the spirit of that “peace for the motherland” – I do not wish to enter into a newspaper polemic with Mr Ramkalawan. Instead, I would prefer to invite him to join me in an open tête-à-tête discussion on SBC TV within the spirit of “bringing peace to motherland” and thereby saying farewell to the politics of “saboule” which he has been preaching in Seychelles.

James R. Mancham