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YCLSA Press Statement, 19 March 2016
Constant Defence of the Guptas by the ANCYL
The Young Communist League of South Africa (uFasimba) is fully behind the
programme of the South African Communist Party (SACP) to confront the
harmful malady of corporate capture head-on. As the YCLSA we are calling on
the leadership of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) to
defend our country's constitutional democracy and democratic national
sovereignty.
It is crucial for the ANCYL to review the automaticity with which some of
the members of its leadership spring to the defence of the Gupta family that
is allegedly "Guptabrokering" Cabinet and other strategic appointments such
as appointments in state-owned enterprises for their own private profit.
According to the constitution of our country, it is the prerogative of the
President of the Republic to make offers and appointments of Cabinet
Ministers and Deputy Ministers.
Trauma
Instead of attacking ANC cadres who have come out openly to disclose their
trauma of being offered public or government positions by members of the
Gupta family, the ANCYL should call for investigations into the alleged
behaviour of those Gupta family members and whoever they are collaborating
with.
One of the key questions that must worry the ANCYL, as it does worry all of
us, is: How do members of the Gupta family gain prior knowledge of Cabinet
and other public appointments and from who do they obtain such information
that at times clearly appears to be reaching them without even known to the
tripartite alliance partners?
The ANCYL is a youth organisation, the preparatory school of the ANC in
terms of its constitution. The ANCYL should, by virtue of its twin tasks to
rally the youth behind the policies of the ANC and represent their
aspirations and interests, NOT be converted into a component part of the
Gupta Front or a front in automatic defence of any individual family that is
amassing billions of rands from a web of relationships with public
establishments or individuals in positions of authority or power, while the
masses of the youth of our country live in inequality, poverty and
unemployment. The struggle to find inequality must be seen finding profound
expression in the real life of the ANCYL in terms of the vision of the
Freedom Charter.
Strongest possible terms
The YCLSA condemns in strongest terms possible all forms of behaviour that
seek to defend kleptocratic oligarchy and all forms of private monopoly.
This is why, as the YCLSA, we congratulate ANC members of leaders who have
come out in defence of the revolutionary values of our national liberation
movement and alliance who have refused offers of public appointments made to
them by members of the Gupta family and their collaborators. We stand by
them!!
Issued by YCLSA Media
For more information contact:
Mluleki Dlelanga
YCLSA National Secretary
Cell: 079 642 9004
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