*YOUR VOTE IS YOUR BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS!* *Friday 20 March 2009*
The Young Communist League of South Africa [uFasimba] joins the working class and the poor youth of South Africa in celebrating Human Rights Day this Saturday, 21 March 2009. This year’s celebration takes place at a very exciting and interesting time in the political calendar of a young democracy, the forthcoming April 22 national and provincial elections. As we celebrate and remember those who suffered and died for our rights in the past in the hands of the apartheid regime, we should also use our rights to vote as part of improving our lives for the better. Working together we can do more. The YCLSA calls on the working class and the poor youth to effectively use the right to vote as enshrined in the constitution, and participate in the strengthening of our constitutional democracy towards building a better future. As we celebrate Human Rights Day it is prudent to be reminded of the constitutional provision for our rights to adequate housing, health care, free education, food, water and social security. We must acknowledge and appreciate the advances that have been made by our nascent democratic dispensation towards the practical realisation of these rights, and commit ourselves using the barrel of the vote to build on the solid foundation that has been built by the ANC government. Much has been achieved over the past 15 years of our freedom and the challenge is to do more by working together. These includes millions of decent jobs created, 3 million houses built, free access to basic health care and access to tertiary education through the National Students Financial Aid Scheme [NSFAS]. All these advances are part of our ongoing efforts towards the practical realisation of our rights as enshrined in the constitution. They are 100 times more than what the Apartheid government has done for our people for more than 340 years in government. This has been done by the ANC together with all our people, and thus, the ANC says in the forthcoming elections “Working Together We Can Do More”. This year marks the 4th election period to renew the mandate of our public representatives in parliament. It is an historical anomaly that when we were preparing for our first democratic elections in 1994, the right-wing forces dastardly and cowardly killed Chris Hani to derail our rights for One Man, One Vote. We call on the 78% young voters to use the right to vote which was achieved through the blood of Chris Hani to go to the polls on April 22, to deliver their unapologetic vote to the ANC. As the YCLSA, we call on young people to take an oath to ensure that “Together with the African National Congress [ANC] we can do more” to improve the conditions faced by ourselves and the people of our country. Issued by YCLSA Contact: *Castro Ngobese, YCLSA National Spokesperson – 082 567 3557* --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
