*YCLSA Eastern Cape Press Statement * September 09, 2013
* * *YCLSA statement on the WSU strike * **The Young Communist League of South Africa [Ufasimba] in the Eastern Cape Province has leant with great happiness that the Walter Sisulu University (WSU) management and leadership of workers under the guidance of NEHAWU and other unions has found each other and decided to call the strike off, that workers will return to work on the 09 September 2013 and teaching and learning resume on the 10 September 2013. We attribute this to the tireless intervention by the Department of Higher Education and Training through Office of the Minister, the Director-General, ANC-led Alliance, Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA) and community of Eastern Cape as a whole. As the YCLSA we reiterate that the WSU problems are historical and they cannot be solved overnight. We applaud the intervention by the ANC-led Alliance, PYA structures and the Department of Higher Education and Training for managing to influence, persuade and convince management and unions in bringing about an amicable solution to the strike action. We call all students to return to the university and focus on their studies. We further welcome the master plan presented by the Institution as we believe it will outline the future plans of addressing historical problems facing the Institution. The YCLSA continues to support and work with ANC-led government as it is the only government that is taking seriously the interests of working class and the poor through Education. We also continue to support President Jacob Zuma’s stance of prioritising Education under his leadership. We share same sentiments with the President Zuma that Education is the only weapon that can be given to young people to improve their standard of living in the future. As the YCLSA, we view an attack on the South African Communist Party (SACP) and its General Secretary Cde Dr Blade Nzimande as an attack on the working class as a whole. We further continue to condemn and dismiss with the contempt it deserves all the empty opportunistic populist rhetoric, anti-communists sentiments from those capitalist believers, perpetrators and worshipers that government under President Zuma through Minister Nzimande has not made efforts in bringing solutions for the challenges facing WSU. Cde Dr Blade Nzimande is a well-grounded leader and he knows with what the working class and the poorest of the poor need and want. We do not have doubt as YCLSA that his deployment in this strategic Ministry of Higher Education and Training will benefit the people of South Africa and the working class as a whole. Issued by YCLSA Eastern Cape. For more information and clarity please contact: **Mluleki Dlelanga YCLSA Eastern Cape Provincial Secretary Cell: 078 6429004 Or Thabang Maseko YCLSA Eastern Cape Provincial Spokesperson Cell: 0837373180 -- -- 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.
