NYDA festival: DA Youth praises Lungisa's inspired international leadership

The DA Youth applauds Andile Lungisa for single-handedly bringing democratic reform to the Middle East with his recent World Festival of Youth and Students. Mr. Lungisa was recently quoted as saying: "Before the festival there were no protests in Egypt. After the festival, there were. Draw your own conclusions" (see Beeld report).

We agree - this is a piece of fine logic.

By the same token, we would like to congratulate Mr. Lungisa for South Sudan's recent referendum, President Obama's repeal of ‘don't ask, don't tell', and Fernando Torres's R570-million transfer to Chelsea.

Before the festival there was no South Sudan, gays could not serve openly in the American military, and an overpaid Spaniard was spending too much time sulking. After the festival, that has all changed. That can surely be no coincidence.

What is even more astonishing about his prompting the Egyptian revolution is that the tiny left-wing Egyptian political party whose youth are delegates to the World Festival of Youth and Students, the El Tagammu Party, has not even taken part in the protest rallies in that country.

That he has precipitated such a major historic moment, without even convincing the handful of disenchanted Egyptian youths who attended his festival to take part in it, shows just what a remarkable and influential global figure Andile Lungisa is.

South Africans are only forking up R5.4-million to pay for Lungisa's three-year term in office as chairperson of the NYDA. Although some may question whether this money wouldn't have been better spent elsewhere (on 100 RDP houses, for instance) the developments in Egypt make it clear that such assertions are the work of anti-revolutionary imperalists, who do not understand what an influence kissing games in Pretoria can have on global affairs.

Statement issued by Mbali Ntuli, DA Youth Chairperson, February 9 2011

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