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Media Alert, 19 April 2015 Young South Africans met to plan fight against xenophobia - #AfricaUNite Youth structures of the ANC Alliance, including ANC Youth League, Young Communist League, SASCO, COSAS, together with the BDS South Africa, ZAPU Youth Front and other youth formations from the African Diaspora and international communities met earlier today at COSATU House, to plan its fight against Xenophobia under the theme "#AfricaUNite". The meeting was supported by the ANC, SACP, COSATU and SANCO. The meeting was inspired by a conviction to fight against the inhuman acts experienced in the recent days against our African brothers and sisters, as well as nationals from the countries of Pakistan, Bangladesh and other nations. The following actions, events and programmes will take place from tomorrow, 20th April 2015 (Monday): Monday, 20th April 2015 Briefing at COSATU of all stakeholders including representatives from the African Diaspora and all affected international people and communities. Tuesday, 21st April 2015 A symbolic human chain and candle lighting in Johannesburg CBD, Hillbrow, Yeoville and other areas. Wednesday, 22rd April 2015 Visiting affected areas and communities with artists, sports people and political leaders in and around Gauteng. Thursday, 23th April 2015 Linking with workers at the upcoming public sector protest march in Tshwane/Pretoria. Friday, 24th April 2015 Main protest march against Xenophobia and celebrating our internationalist spirit. Route of march will cover the almost entirety of Johannesburg CBD as well as communities of Hillbrow, Yeoville, Berea etc. The protest march symbolically starts at Nelson Mandela Bridge proceeding via the Head Office of workers and the working class, COSATU HOUSE, passing Constitutional Hill, then proceeding to the communities of Hillbrow and ending in Yeoville (where there will be addresses by various political leaders, government representatives and ending off with a #AfricaUnite Music concert). Friday Night #AfricaUnite music concert and celebration in Yeoville with various international and local artists. We make a call to all youth structures, unions, civil society organizations and other groups to join us under this #AfricaUnite banner and upcoming programmes. We as young people will also be planning events and long term programmes to address Xenophobia. We will not let these events be reduced to talk-shops. We have many socio economic issues and violence is a serious problem. However, our Government has made progress, we must not deny, on addressing poverty and inequality. Though we have more to do. South Africa is a home, we insist, to all and for all. Let's join our government on speeding up on addressing, both, issues facing immigrant communities in SA as well as local socio-economic problems. Media to contact: ANC Youth League Kgomotso Ramolobeng 079 435 9854 Young Communist League Alex Mdakane +27 78 526 8663 Congress of South African Students Sandra Baloyi 079 149 0157 South African Students Congress Supported by: ANC SACP SANCO COSATU BDS South Africa ZAPU Youth Front -- -- 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/d/optout.
