Building PYA structures for another decisive victory
in 2011
Greetings
principled and disciplined young cadres of this revolutionary movement, this is
a specific message to leaders and members of the Progressive Youth Alliance.
We have made every effort to deliver the youth
vote to the ANC led alliance on the 22nd of April. We were
campaigning tirelessly, young people of this land know us because we visited
every house, street corner, high school, university, technical college and even
taverns because we knew that these are the places where we find young people.
Victory has been
achieved but the question now is what lies ahead for our structures? We went in
these elections with all the PYA structures intact and they were not just
intact for election purposes, but for getting the voice of young people heard
across platforms. We should capitalise on the vibrancy, militancy, vigilance
and enthusiasm brought by the elections, in order to build and strengthen our
structure for another decisive victory in 2011.
. Leadership of
the ANC Youth League under comrade Julius Sello Malema must go to provinces,
regions
and branches to make sure political activism is present in these structures. I
know of some branches that have become dysfunctional. This thing of building
ANC Youth League branches when we are preparing for conference should be a
thing of the past. We should have strong branches that will monitor government
and ensure speedy service delivery so that we don’t have problems with the
masses come 2011 and further.
Regions affected
by the Polokwane renegades such as Amathole should be launched with immediate
effect. The ANC Youth League in that region should influence the outcomes of
the regional conference of the ANC, so that friends of Mluleki George who are
still in the ANC don’t get anywhere close to its leadership. This should all be
done in the service of the people, with the vision of 2011 in this locality.
I know that the
YCL follow what Lenin said in 1923 when he wrote, “We must follow the rule:
Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human
material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting
any at all.” But I think it is high time that we intensify our Operation Khula
Campaign so that Our Vision 2010 becomes a reality. Delegation of the Eastern
and Western Cape was quite an embarrassment in the conference and the YCL
secretariat should directly intervene in these provinces.
This was a Natonal
Council where one would have never been proud to come from one of these
provinces, more especially the Western Cape as it had less than ten delegates.
Provincial
Interim Leadership Core’s (PILC) of these provinces should make sure that the
DILCs are established and are busy recruiting for regional conferences and
ultimately provincial conferences. We should not wait for the 2010 National
Conference to build these structures.
The leadership of
SASCO must make sure that all branches have gone to AGMs or BGMs so that we can
run successful SRC elections this year again. The NEC of SASCO definitely knows
now that some people who were elected in AGMs last year have defected to COPE
and are now beginning to interpret the SASCO constitution as if it says they
can belong to any organisation and be leaders of SASCO. The national and
provincial leadership of SASCO should go down to branches and clarify this
before we go to the NGC.
COSAS should make
sure that it exists in all localities and where it does not it must establish
task teams. I am one person, who will be willing to help COSAS build it
structures in Grahamstown. In 2011 it should be the responsibility of COSAS to
deliver the young scholars vote to the ANC led Alliance.
All this should be
done in the service of the people in generally and of the youth in particular.
By
2011 all young people must see the fruits of freedom to the extent that they
would not need any convincing to vote for our movement. By 2011 a significant
number of young people should be members of the PYA. As Julius would say, they
should be seen in action. Let us
therefore go in our numbers and recruit the youth of this country to join us in
our quest of defending our revolutionary gains.
Backward Racist Zille Backward, Forward Malema Forward!
Luzuko Buku
YCL KK ‘Chule’ Papiyane District
Rhini
Rhodes University
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