YCL Statement on the resignation of Cabinet Ministers and the Deputy President!

The Young Communist League [uFasimba] notes with shame and utter disgust the resignations of key Cabinet Ministers and the Deputy President of the Republic in retaliation to the African National Congress National Executive Committee decision to recall Mr Thabo Mbeki.

The resignations reflects political imbecility and sycophancy and reaffirms our long held view that they were not loyal to the ANC and the people of South Africa in executing their duties of improving the lives of our people for the better.

The resignations expose their embedded politics of patronage and loyalty to an individual over the organisation as demonstrated by the Mbeki administration over the past 10 years of his stewardship. Obviously this serves a hidden agenda intent on challenging the Alliance and democratic forces as a whole.

We call on the Alliance as the political centre of power and governance in the country to provide decisive leadership by identifying cadres within our ranks to fill the vacancies as a result of these ill - informed and misguided resignations.

As the YCL we will urge the Alliance to have a structured political discussion on the emerging and foreign tendency whereby cadres of the movement are more loyal to an individual than the organisation they serve. Surely, this act of political immaturity and greed was meant to plunge the movement into a deep political and leadership crisis. The Alliance must rise to the occasion!

This should serve as a lesson to the ANC and the Alliance where our tried and tested cadres see state perks and power as the alpha and omega of serving the country.

The YCL urges South Africans in general and the youth in particular to be calm and have confidence in the leadership collective of the Alliance to manage this painful and difficult transitional period in the interests of defending the abuse of state organs and continued dispensation of patronage to settle narrow and factional battles within the ranks of the movement.

The YCL will support the new administration as led by the Deputy President of the African National Congress [ANC], Cde Kgalema Mothlante.

Statement issued by Young Communist League September 22 2008