Cds
i dnt know the whole motive behind khaya idea of forwarding this mail based on
Anele's statement made on news24,but i smell a rat here, r u suggesting dat the
YL shud promote anele statements and take sides based on which grounds
khaya xaba wrote:
> Johannesburg - The ANC splinter group's answer to Julius Malema is causing
> waves. Meet Anele Mda: outspoken, passionate and, until 31 October, an
> executive committee member of the ANC Youth League.
> Now the 30-year-old youth activist has been appointed to convene the youth
> wing of the ANC breakaway party started by former defence minister Mosiuoa
> Lekota and former Gauteng premier Mbhazima Shilowa.
> Mda is already getting people excited with her vision of a united South
> African youth and of putting petty politics aside.
> "We stand for inclusiveness and the high moral ground of young people in
> general," said Mda, who has criticised the ANCYL for its exclusively black
> leadership.
> She quickly rose to national prominence and dominated media briefings with
> her alternative perspective on youth leadership.
> Scathing about Malema
> In an interview with News24, Mda was scathing about ANCYL leader Julius
> Malema.
> "I don't spend a lot of my time thinking about Malema, but when I see his
> behaviour I think it's as simple as a wild animal's behaviour," she quipped.
> "There isn't any domestic animal I liken Malema's behaviour to because I'm
> going to do injustice to those animals."
> She took a swipe at the youth league's backing of ANC president Jacob Zuma.
> "If we have a leader whose morality has been exposed to not be in good stand
> then we should not seek to back such individuals for the sake of our own
> popularity," she told News24.
> While Malema boasts of his politically-charged upbringing in Polokwane, Mda
> earned her credentials serving in ANC heartland itself. Born in Bizana in the
> Eastern Cape , she grew up in Mthata and founded an NGO, the Port St Johns
> HIV and Aids Information Centre, when still in her late teens. She now works
> for the Eastern Cape Youth Commission.
> She called her NGO work with young girls an eye-opening experience and wants
> to encourage a culture of volunteerism amongst SA youth.
> "For example our Crime Foot Soldiers," she said, referring to one of many
> initiatives to be discussed at a conference in January. "Young people must
> become the ears and eyes of society."
> Misgivings about the ANC
> Mda says she had her first misgivings about the ANC and its youth league in
> 2005. "There was a gap between the then president of the ANC, Comrade Thabo
> Mbeki, and the collective NEC at large."
> She described how controversial decisions made by the ANC would be
> attributed to Mbeki while the National Executive Committee would take credit
> for what worked.
> "I started to smell a rat and I began to feel wary of the whole thing. To my
> knowledge of how the ANC operated, whether in bad or happier times, we stick
> together."
> She tried raising her concerns several times at various levels of the
> league, but realised that political games were being played and positions
> earned. "Certain individuals secured for themselves whatever it is they were
> promised," she said. "It was political manipulation."
> The new youth wing
> Cue the new youth wing, which Mda promises will focus on education, health,
> the economy and the fight against crime.
> "We no longer want our people continuously being fed by the hand of
> government," she said. "We want to promote a culture of non-dependency."
> But she is thin on detail on how these areas will be changed. A clear policy
> will only emerge out of January's conference.
> But one thing is certain. She's is stepping into a youth leadership vacuum
> in the country, and attracting those Malema has alienated with his
> controversial statements and allegiances. "We do not subscribe to the notion
> that says we value party loyalty more than the requirements of general masses
> of our country at large," she said.
> COMMUNIST REGARDS
> EVER ONWARD TO VICTORY
>
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