*YCL Limpopo Press Statement* * *
February 6, 2012 *STATEMENT ON THE ANC’S NDC-A RULING* ** The Young Communist League of South Africa [uFasimba] in the Province of Limpopo welcomes the ruling of the ANC’S NDC-A in the appeal application filed by Comrade Julius Malema and Four Others against the ANC which was delivered on the 04th February 2012. While the YCLSA agrees unanimously with the NDCA’s ruling on the matter, the fact that the conviction and the sanction imposed by the NDC based on the “Barging Charge” was rescinded or set aside by the NDCA remains a serious and worrying political matter. The YCLSA without any purported intention of deviating from democratic centralism is concerned that the rescission on the barging charge will go a long way in creating a wrong political precedent system in future in dealing with similar offence (political misconduct/s). The YCLSA is of the political conviction that the quashing of the said charge is not in consonant with Rule 4.15 of the ANC Constitution applied in its totality. The YCLSA find political solace that the NDCA is a final arbiter on all ANC appeal matters, and therefore it does not seek to initiate to challenge the ruling of the NDCA, but to support it. As the American essayist and Poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson rightfully declared that *“An ounce of* *action is worth a ton of theory”,* the YCLSA believes that the ANC has moved beyond the practice of theorizing, but practicalising full implementation of both revolutionary and political discipline from the inception of the proceedings until their logical conclusion. This is quite commendable, to say the least. The NDCA’s ruling will surely go a long way in redeeming the image of the ANC on matters of discipline and to the broader society at large. The NDCA must be commended on the good work well done, moreso on its Introductory Remarks from the outset of the Ruling, to the effect that *“The ANC is a voluntary political* *Organization….”.*The YCLSA hopes that the appellants may find political consolation from the words of the world’s most renowned icon, Comrade Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela who advised that *“Difficulties break some men, but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that s/he will rise in the end”.* * * Issued by the leadership collective of the YCLSA in the province. For more information Contact Provincial Organizing Secretary Ntsepeng Mookamedi. 082 837 1136 -- 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] .
