ANC YOUTH LEAGUE GERT SIBANDE REGION CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO CDE MDUDUZI COMFORT MANANA ON HIS APPOINTMENT AS DEPUTY MINISTER 14 June 2012 The ANC Youth League Gert Sibande Region in Mpumalanga would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the newly appointed Deputy Ministers of Higher Education, cde Mduduzi Comfort Manana a resident of the Region of the Lion of the East. Cde Mduduzi Manana is currently serving in the National Executive Committee of the ANC Youth League for the second time after being re-elected in to the NEC in 2011. He cut his tooth into leadership and community activism in his days at high school whilst still a student at the Cefubs Academy in Nelspruit where he was the President of the SRC. Comrade Manana is a graduate and leader who we believe will be able to assist in providing strategic and political leadership to the Department of Higher Education as it continues with the transformatio agenda of our post-matric education. We believe that he will compliment the already existing vibrancy and work hand in hand with Dr Blade Ndzimande in ensuring that improved quality and increased access to post-matric education becomes a reality. We are overwhelmed and impressed as the REC of Gert Sibande, an REC where cde Manana was once a member by the confidence shown by cde President Zuma in one of our products that we unanimously agreed to second and send during the 2009 Elections to go and serve the ANC at the National Assembly. We have always had confidence in Cde Manana’s abilities hence it was us who lobbied and advocated that he be re-elected into the NEC of the ANC Youth League in Gallagher last year. We firmly believe that the President did not make a mistake in ensuring that our cry for generational mix is responded to. We view the appointment of Cde Manana as a victory for the ANC Youth League and all pillars of the progressive alliance. We were therefore dismayed, insulted and flabbergasted by the spate of insults and attacks directed to the appointment of one of the youngest members of parliament uttered by our ally in the PYA by the name of SASCO in their statement released on Wednesday. We have noted with interest their discomfort and we believe that if given the opportunity, we will be glad to teach them about the processes of appointments to the National Executive(Cabinet). We further urge all structures and components in the Progressive Youth Alliance to rally behind Cde Manana to enable him to better perform his duties. We believe that Comrade Manana will continue to be beyond reproach and continue to inspire confidence by working together with all stakeholders in the Higher Education setup to adress all challenges currently faced by students. We believe that he will be a custodian of all policy position on Higher Education as advocated for by the PYA. The ANC Youth League in Gert Sibande would like to remind Cde Manana of this words as he continue to perform his duties: “ Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.” Lao Tzu We believe that you will never let down the young people of the region, province and country, as well as betray the confidence demonstrated by President Zuma in your abilities. We are confident that where ever the bones of our former stalwarts in the mould of Gert Sibande, Nokuthula Simelane, Webster Makhubu, Muziwakhe Ngwenya, Sibongile Nsibande, Musa Malinga, Brown Shongwe, Mshefi Ndlovu and many other fallen heroes are lying, they are like us here proud of your achievement and the will continue to guide and inspire you. We wish Comrade Honourable Deputy Minister Manana well in his future endeavours. Issued on behalf of the ANC Youth League Gert Sibande Region Sibusiso R Mlangeni : Spokesperson - 073 839 2195 Zakhele Masilela: Secretary – 071 292 9399 Khulani Nhlabathi: Chairperson – 072 904 1407 Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you!
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