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On 04 May 2012, at 5:55 PM, VC <[email protected]> wrote: > > <ANCtodayNew.gif> > > > Revolutionary commitment and youth ambitions > > > Ramaano Ramabulana, ANC Today, Johannesburg, 4 May 2012 > > The current discourse requires all youth to do deep and proper introspection > with regard to our values. Are we an asset or liability to the revolution? > Our former leaders surrendered their privileges to serve our people and to > achieve our freedom. Comrades went to jail and were forced into exile > forfeiting their privileges and leaving their loved ones in the care of their > families. > > Whenever the name of Chris Hani is mentioned youth think of an intellectual, > a soldier and a leader of the caliber of Che Guevara. They achieved > academically at the young age and went on to achieve immortality as > revolutionaries. It must also be noted that not only education makes a great > leader but the love of your people is the paramount prerequisite of being a > great revolutionary. > > The youth of 1976 fought hard for us to be taught in the language that offer > us more access to information and choices. They saved as from the narrow > Bantu education of the apartheid regime. Today we are moving towards a better > education because of those sacrifices. Education remains the ANC's pillar of > achievement freedom and reduction of unemployment, poverty and equality. > > Post 1994 provides more opportunities for the youth in South Africa, access > to education has improved and even youth from poor families can pursue their > academic dreams. Criminals were role models during the dawn of democracy as > they were seen to have more money and better life than an average black > people. The ANC fought mentality that crimes pays and drove the message to > youth to be educated and earn an honest living. > > That battle is being won and youth have been given responsibility to > transform their learning environment to be representative of the change > envisage in the ANC adopted positions. The early 1990s leaders of > Congress of South African Students (COSAS) and South African Student Congress > (SASCO) led with honour and fought for the transformation of our education > system. > > They were aware that the ANC needed educated youth to fight poverty, > inequality and unemployment. They also needed to be prepared > academically and politically to take over the economy and properly lead the > social transformation agenda. They knew their place in the struggle and > paramount duty to advance the struggle for universally access to education > for our people. > > These leaders were aware that you need to perform academically to remain > political relevant and carry out mandate, dropping out was not an option. It > was painful but they had overcome the challenges of being student and > activist, they are the true role models of our youth. > > These structures produced great leaders like Malusi Gigaba, Thomas Mutshidza, > Febe Potgieter, David Makhura, Nomfanelo Kota, Mike Nevari and others who > took their academic responsibility serious and carry out their political > mandate. They progressed in the academic world when it was difficult to do > so. They knew about Chris Hani as not just a soldier but as intellectual and > they made him proud. > > The ANC Youth League remains the balancing force to these two structures of > our youth movement to keep members of SASCO and COSAS. Their focus on the NDR > is not just one dimensional but a broader strategic perspective of the ANC to > achieve its mission of creating a united, democratic, non-racial, non-sexiest > and prosperous society. > > Today we have almost universally access to education and there is no excuse > not to have qualification or career if you really pursue your dreams. You do > not need to be a genius like Anton Lembede, Nelson Mandela, OR Tambo or Chris > Hani but you just need to take your academic life seriously to get access to > tertiary education whose government funding has improved. Students are even > getting allowances from NFSAS to make their academic life easier. > > The question to the current members of the mass democratic movement led by > the ANC is what privileges we are surrendering to be part of this great > movement. Are we an asset to the ANC or we are liability? Do we see the ANC > as an alternative from the personal failures to achieve our childhood dreams > of creating independent success? The truth is that we are abusing the > membership of the ANC to achieve personal ambitions through our positions of > responsibility in the movement. More structures are disbanded in the Youth > League today than when there was no material benefit, why? > > There is also a problem that leaders within our structures use the youth to > do their dirty work promising them better jobs and wealth. For instance there > is one person whom through his rhetoric and militancy fooled many to believe > he was a visionary and revolutionary leader but who has turned out and > confessed he has been used as a toilet paper and a condom. He has proven he > is not worthy to be followed as he is also following and handled somewhere. > > The youth are more obsessed with short term than long term because they need > security. They push personal agenda at all cost, and they will do anything > that provides material benefits. They are obsessed with leadership > than serving and activism. They will mortgage and commercialise their future > to those that promise them luxury. > > The question is how safe is the revolution in these people's hands, who have > surrendered their souls to be members of ANC. They are unemployed, no > education and learn all dirty tricks to ascend to power, name the price they > will deliver you to your desire position but is always short-term. They are > only loyal to the highest bidder and money. > > If the ANC still has an internal security and majority of them would fail the > membership test. They take one day as it comes, they have destroyed political > activists for careers. The word political mentorship and development is no > existence to them, they think they know ANC better than anyone within our > structures and they are indeed at the wrong side of the history. > > Personal development should be encouraged and advocated to all youth within > the ANC. Education is the right and young ANC members need to drive this > message to villages, township and Cities. We should show the world that we > are ready to drive all pillars of social transformation and Lead the ANC to > the next 100 years. We should help the current leadership to move towards the > achievement for economic transformation. > > As youth we must embark on continuous political education and development. We > should love the ANC more than we love positions and money that will only be > scarifies we should make. COSAS and SASCO must continue to produce good > leaders like before and ANCYL must fulfill its twin task of being a > politically preparatory school for the ANC and a champion of youth > development. > > We will get old one day and respect is two fold. If we respect each other, > like what President Mandela said in 1997" different of opinion must be > tolerated provide they do not brought ANC in disrepute" the senior leaders > will provide mentorship to youth so that we become the worthy heirs to this > beautiful and glorious 100 years old ANC of Dube, Makgatho, Mahabane, Gumede, > Seme, Xuma, Moroka, Luthuli, Tambo, Mandela, Mbeki, and Zuma. > > "The revolution lives on not in words to live for it, but in one's heart to > die for it." Che Guevara > > Ramaano Ramabulana is a member of the ANC Youth League Ward 92 Branch in > Greater Tshwane Region > > From: http://www.anc.org.za/docs/anctoday/2012/at17.htm#art2 > > > -- > You are subscribed. 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