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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:21:40 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] YCLSA Gauteng Provincial Working Committee Statement Please remove me from your list Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -----Original Message----- From: Khaya Xaba <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:29:54 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] YCLSA Gauteng Provincial Working Committee Statement *YCLSA Gauteng Press Statement* * *January 23, 2012 *YCLSA* *Gauteng Provincial Working Committee Statement* The Young Communist League of South Africa [uFasimba] in the province of Gauteng convened yesterday, Sunday, 22 January 2012 in the ordinary session of the Provincial Working Committee (PWC). This was the first session of the PWC in 2012. The purpose of the PWC is to look at the day to day running of the administrative, organisational and political functions of the YCLSA in the province, provide such other guidance through decision-making as it is necessary and account to the Provincial Executive Committee as and when it convenes. The PWC considered a political analysis and conducted strategic reflections on the balance of forces and the state of class struggle in the province, nationally and internationally. On this basis the PWC looked at the state of the organisation at the provincial, district and branch levels. The PWC identified immediate organisational and political measures in order to strengthen capacity to advance the revolutionary interests of young people as part of the struggles for the national democratic revolution and socialism. This shall be pursued in line with the declaration and resolutions of our Third Provincial Congress, held November 2011, guidance from our National Committee and the Communist Party. The PWC ratified the resolutions for approval by the Provincial Executive Committee which is scheduled for February 2012, and further gave the Secretariat a go ahead in arranging engagements with relevant organisations and institutions, including government, in order to advance our mandate from congress on youth and economic development. Taking place in the context of, the PWC had to reflect on, the centenary celebrations of the ANC, a leading political formation of our national liberation movement, the revolutionary alliance in which it serves together with COSATU and the SACP, and indeed our society at large. We join our National Committee of the YCLSA in congratulating the ANC for reaching the milestone of hundred years of existence and liberation struggle. Our members attended the national centenary celebrations held on the weekend of the 6th to 8th January 2012 in Mangaung which in our view were generally successful despite a few challenges. We shall as the YCLSA mobilise our members to participate in the centenary celebrations that have started and are planned by the ANC in the province, regions, zones and branches. The PWC noted that there are some elements who misunderstand the centenary celebrations of the ANC. In this misunderstanding the centenary of the ANC is confused with its ascendency to the position of the leader of government in the last seventeen years since April 1994. An automatically unfair and absolutely misplaced assessment of the ANC as if it is hundred years in government is then assumed to paint a picture, wrong in the extreme, of failure in its historic mission. The PWC condemned in strongest terms this attempt to vilify the ANC regardless of whether such is committed from within or without, wittingly or unwittingly. As the YCLSA our confidence in the ANC remains strong and it is unshaken. The very important 1994 transition to the present democratic dispensation is on its own a milestone to every rightfully thinking person in and outside South Africa, and thanks to our national liberation movement as led by the ANC. On their own too, the very few years since 1994 when the ANC became the leader of government illustrate a remarkable progress in dealing with centuries old legacies of British imperialism, colonialism and apartheid which all in their interrelatedness require enormous amount of resources and more time to eradicate. The PWC looked at some negative developments that affect the ANC. In particular the PWC is convinced that these find their premise in the prevailing form of economic production and distribution, i.e. the capitalist mode and in general its existing social relations of production, on one hand, and on the other, their connection to the form of state organisation and the extent to which that is exploited to advance private capital accumulation often through, but not exclusively, tenders and associated corruption. It is our view that in order to deal with these problems structural transformation in the economy and the state is required although not as the only condition. It is our unanimously held conclusion that to navigate successfully towards its second centenary and beyond, the ANC must decisively deal with ill-discipline, incoherence and divisiveness within its leadership and the rank and file membership in general. A tendency by which individual leaders, members and structures deviate from the respect of important principles that have for long held the ANC together, principles such as democratic centralism and the fundamental need to subordinate one’s individual views to those of the leadership collective and the organisation as a whole, if not dealt with and dismantled, pose a danger to weaken the ANC and in the extreme destroy it from within. The ANC also needs to forge ahead and deal with maladministration, incompetence and corruption by public representatives and officials, and disrupt the all axis of corruption between them and the private sector. In all of these as the YCLSA we shall support the ANC. Issued on behalf of the PWC by Provincial Secretary: Alex Mashilo Cell: 082 9200 308 For further commend Provincial Spokesperson is also available: Matankana Mothapo Cell: 082 759 09900 -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. 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