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YCLSA Press Statement, 30 March 2015 YCLSA Political Commission Statement The Young Communist League of South Africa [uFasimba] convened an ordinary plenary session of the Standing Political Commission of the National Committee in Johannesburg on Saturday March 28, 2015. The Political Commission is the highest implementing body of the YCLSA decision, programmes and its ideological organ in between National Committee meetings. The Political Commission received and discussed the organisational overview, political report and the financial report. The meeting assessed the Political situation both nationally and internationally. The Political Commission discussed a wide variety of issues including the following: Chris Hani Month The YCLSA every year celebrates the life and times of the former General Secretary of the South African Communist Party [SACP], Cde Chris Hani, who was dastardly assassinated on April 10, 1993 by forces who did not want to see South Africa transform into a democratic country. The death of Cde Hani robbed us of one of the sharpest cadres of our liberation struggle just before the dawn of democracy. In honour of Cde Hani the YCLSA will host a variety of commemoration events across the country in the month of April. The commemoration events will include memorial lectures, school visits, visiting the grave of Cde Hani and mini rallies. Our Chris Hani month will be launched on April 9, 2015 in the city of Ekurhuleni. We will redouble our efforts in calling for an official inquest into the assassination of Cde Hani. We will demand audience from both the President and the Minister of Justice on the matter. 2016 Local Government Elections The YCLSA continues to have confidence in the African National Congress [ANC] and strongly believes that it is the only party that has the best interests of our people at heart. The ANC has done a lot for our people in the last 21 years and more can still be done by the ANC to bring betterment to the lives of South Africans especially the working class and the poor. It is for these reasons that we will be immediately implementing our elections campaign strategy. We will go all out to ensure an overwhelming victory of the ANC in the 2016 local government elections. We will invade both rural and urban areas, campuses, factory floors, and farms to ensure that our people are reminded of the good story that the ANC has to tell. On #RhodesMustFall The YCLSA supports the #RhodesMustFall campaigning at the University Cape Town and the subsequent call for the name change of Rhodes University. We need as a matter of urgency to obliterate all the legacies of imperialism and apartheid that are still in existence in our country. If we are to transform South Africa into a non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous country as set out in the National Democratic Revolution [NDR] we need to do away with all the remnants of apartheid and imperialism. The other remnants of the oppressive apartheid regime that are still in existence that must be done away with including statues, street names and name of buildings. Over and above the statures we still need to deal with the inequalities that exist in our country. South African is the country with the most unequal society in the world and the gap between the have and the have-nots widens on a daily basis. National Youth Policy 2020 The YCLSA has been engaging the National Youth Policy 2020 since its launch by the Deputy Minister in the President and former YCLSA National Secretary, Cde Buti Manamela. We have made submissions on the policy and contributed massively on its content. A delegation of the YCLSA Political Commission led by the National Secretary, Cde Mluleki Dlelanga, has joined the final deliberation of the Policy at the Birchwood Hotel which started yesterday [Sunday March 29, 2015] and will conclude today [Monday March 30, 2015]. On COSATU The Political Commission analysed the crisis that is currently engulfing the Congress of South African Trade Unions [COSATU]. As the YCLSA we are very much concerned about what is happening at COSATU and we are of the view that we cannot keep still while our beloved federation is being torn into pieces. We call on all involved for forge unity and ensure that we save this giant from perishing. A strong and united COSATU is a danger to the capitalist class who feast on the working class and the poor by exploiting them by paying them peanut wages, casualisation, labour brokering and unfair labour practises. On Palestine The Political Commission analysed the 2015 Israel Apartheid Week and discussed strategies that will be deployed to ensure the freedom of Palestinians. We have noted the victory of Benjamin Netanyahu in the Israel elections held earlier this month and concluded that is does not bode well for Palestinians who have over the years endured countless atrocities at the hands of apartheid Israel. We will intensify our #BoycottWoolworths campaing and ensure that our people do not buy from Woolworths who continue to stock Israeli products from occupied Palestinians land. On Eskom On Eskom, we strongly condemn efforts by a 'hidden hand' to privatize Eskom for their own personal interests. The efforts to privatize Eskom by the 1996 class project are precisely what have led to challenges in the supply of electricity that Eskom is facing today. We remain convinced as the YCLSA that Eskom can never be privatized as the provision of electricity is a common good and not a private privilege. Those who have benefited from the supply of diesel for premium prices at the expense of energy for the poor must be brought to book. The challenges of energy present an energy opportunity that cannot be left to select few white monopoly capitalists to benefit from. We also call on the relevant Ministers to look at that possibility of a 'workers take over' of Eskom rather that privatizing the entity. "Read to lead" The YCLSA will be embarking on a, 'Read to Lead' Mass Literacy Campaign to be launched on the 27th April 2015. The aim of this campaign is to improve the levels of reading and writing amongst youth. The YCLSA is concerned about the low levels of reading and writing amongst the youth. We will therefore before launching a campaign to ensure that every community space is transformed into a learning space. Through this campaign every young person should be able to read and write proficiently. Issued by YCLSA Media For more information contact: Khaya Xaba YCLSA National Spokesperson Cell: 074 5 204 204 Tel: 011 339 3621 www.ycl.org.za @chedetachment -- -- 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. 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