Young Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA), Gauteng Province Cell: 082 9200 308 | Tel 011 689 1731| Fax: 086 697 9388 Email: [email protected] 153 Bree Street Newtown Johannesburg, Numsa Head Offices
Tuesday 20 October 2009 YCLSA Gauteng Province calls on alliance partners to focus on improving service delivery to the people and to disengage from public spats The Young Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA) in the province of Gauteng notes and condemns to the contempt it deserves the unfortunate developments of public spats within the ANC-led alliance, particularly between the ANC and the SACP. Yesterday, Monday 19 October 2009 the ANC used the media to single out the SACP and accuse it for instigating service delivery protests in Diepsloot, North of Johannesburg. Employing the media to level allegations against own alliance partners is destructive and contradictory to, as the ANC claimed in its media statement, affirming ‘the importance of the historic Alliance between the ANC, SACP and COSATU’ and assuming ‘the responsibility to lead and build unity in action among alliance partners’. Such a style of work is destructive and does not even help lay a proper basis but actually sets up a counter-productive environment, for a Provincial Alliance Summit which the ANC has correctly called for in its statement. As the YCLSA we convened in the 10th Plenary Session of our Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) just a day before yesterday, Sunday 18 October 2009 in Johannesburg. We deliberated over a wide range of issues including the state of service delivery and the protest action that took place in Diepsloot. The YCLSA does not support violent and opportunistic mobilisation, and called on all communities in the province to attend to their problems peacefully. We also do not support any approach that, under the guise of condemning violence and opportunism, seeks to mask the many service delivery problems devastating working class and poor communities. Despite commendable progress made since the 1994 democratic breakthrough, in many parts of our country Diepsloot included, there are genuine service delivery concerns that must be addressed. While it is true that the alliance shares the same agenda, especially in terms of a minimum programme the Freedom Charter, we have not always agreed on approaches. The underlying reasons why working class and poor communities are particularly subjected to the many service delivery problems include an approach that sought to hollow out the state. This involved corporatisation and agencyfication of state organs, a move away from transferring wealth and productive capacity into the hands of the people as a whole, and, privatisation and outsourcing. All of this not only liquidate the role of government in socio-economic development including service delivery but are often accompanied by precarious work, widening inequality, the desire for self-enrichment on the part of certain leaders and thus corruption, patronage and financialisation of democratic processes including elections within our broad movement. These are part of the non- inconsiderable realities that alliance partners must face head on rather than using the media to level allegations against each other. As the YCLSA in the province of Gauteng we call on alliance partners to focus on improving service delivery to the people and to disengage from public spats. Issued by the YCLSA Gauteng Province, Johannesburg For further information contact Alex Mashilo, 082 9200 308 Provincial Secretary --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
