well presented On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Khaya Xaba <[email protected]> wrote: > YCLSA Limpopo Press Statement > > March 06, 2013 > > YCLSA LIMPOPO Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) Statement > > The Young Communist League of South Africa [Ufasimba] in Limpopo convened > its 2nd Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) meeting on March 3, 2013 at the > NUM office in Polokwane. The purpose of the meeting was to deliberate on key > political and organizational issues that are of great importance to the > youth drawn from working class background. > > The PEC has adopted a programme of action for the year which includes major > campaigns of the organisation such as the Joe Slovo Right to Learn, Right to > Work Campaign, Kabelo Thibedi ID Campaign, Know Your Neighborhood, and > operation Khula Campaign. > > As the YCLSA in Limpopo we re-affirm our commitment and continuous > relationship with other Progressive youth formations such as COSAS, SASCO, > and ANCYL in the province with a clear intention to build a strong > Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA) that will advance the interests of young > people. > > The PEC also condemn the attack on the State and ANC President Cde Jacob > Zuma by so called independent analysts and organized business people like > Prince Mashele, and Moeletsi Mbeki who uses the bourgeoisie media to erode > confidence of the people on the ANC led government. They formed an elitist > reactionary group called The Midrand group with a clear intension to > discredit the ANC led alliance as a useless entity that cares less about the > plight of the working people. We believe that those attack are not innocent > but an attempt to create a space for the newly launched elitist “political > platform” Agang led by Mamphele Ramphele. Their real intentions are to steal > votes from the ANC in 2014. > > We have noted with serious concern about the situation in Medupi Power > station in the Lephalale sub-district where workers have been striking for > the past five months against lower wages and poor working conditions. As > YCLSA in the province we full support the workers and we are of the view > that this kind of situation was clearly planned and sponsored by the > capitalists with an intention to suppress and demobilize members of the > progressive trade unions such as NUMSA and NUM. > > As the YCLSA we acknowledged this year matric results; they showed an > improvement of 66.9% but noted some challenges which have not been resolved > by the Department of Education in the Province. These include the following > challenges: > > § No laboratories and libraries > > § Poor sports field and other recreational facilities > > § No access to information communication technology > > § Shortage of classrooms and teacher’s which led to overcrowding of > learners > > § No transportation to learners who travels long distance to access the > school > > § Drugs and substance abuse by the learners in close proximity with towns > > § Late delivery of study materials which led to learners to be behind with > syllabus. > > The PEC has notes with serious disappointment the State of the Province > address delivered by Premier Cassel Mathale on February, 21 2013. As the > YCLSA we believe that the address misrepresented the views of the > electorates and in particular of young people because it failed to unpack > the government’s commitments to tackle youth unemployment and strategies to > uproot corruption in the province. > > We call to the ANC NEC to relieve Premier Cassel Mathale and his > administration from their political responsibilities because the branches > and general membership of this province have lost faith and trust on them > due to their inability to manage state funds. We believe that ANC NEC will > consider the views of the general membership. > > Issued by the YCLSA Limpopo Province > > For more information Contact: > > Bashin Magoma > > Provincial Secretary > > Cell: 072 770 3359 > > -- > -- > 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] . > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > >
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