ANC YOUTH LEAGUE STATEMENT ON CONTINUED ATTEMPTS BY SECTIONS OF THE MEDIA AND RIGHT WING POLITICAL PARTIES TO DIVERT ATTENTION OF THE ANC YL AND SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIETY THROUGH SPREAD OF PATHETIC LIES:
The African National Congress Youth League has noted attempts by sections of the media and right wing white political formations to divert attention of the ANC Youth League and society from critical issues by spreading stupid and pathetic lies about the leadership of the ANC Youth League.
In a fashion that undermines the intellectual capacity of the South African people, these detractors claim that we are building a house for R16 million with all sort of specifications they imagine and subsequently believe to be true. This claim is not only false, but represents highest form of deception and pathetic, desperate undermining of people who read about these things.
A house costing R16 million to construct only exists in the imaginations of right wing, narrow-minded and obsessed white people who always think Africans cannot and should not build houses of their own. Whether we are building a house or not does not belong to the media, and even if there was such a house being built, it would certainly not cost anything close to R16 million.
We are aware that the DA and FF have approached SARS to report their own imagination that we are building a house of R16 million. As we said before, the ANC Youth League supports SARS activities and decisions on any matter unconditionally, and believes that their decisions on who to conduct investigations and life-style audits on will never be a result of political instructions and ventilations of particularly racist political parties.
If SARS takes a decision to conduct life-style audit on any leader of the ANC Youth League, the leadership will fully co-operate. It will however be problematic if such decisions are taken because the DA or any other right-wing political party has given instruction.
ANC Youth League expresses utter disgust on continued attempts to question the individual integrity of the black and particularly African leadership of the ANC led National Liberation Movement, particularly when people fail to engage issues the leadership raises. It is evident that all beneficiaries of apartheid in political parties and media houses always have a problem whenever blacks and Africans in particular are liberated from absolute poverty and begin to have access to some of the opportunities previously reserved for whites only.
We have never seen the DA, FF and all other beneficiaries of apartheid raise concerns when white people make progress and access opportunities. This again confirms our observation that an absolute majority of beneficiaries of apartheid are not comfortable with black people and always think of them as sub-humans who must be trapped in poverty and starvation forever.
Amidst all these diversions, the ANC Youth League will never be diverted from our main political programme for economic freedom in our lifetime. We will continue to with the struggle for nationalisation of Mines, expropriation of land and other strategic sectors of the economy, without compensation, the struggles for free education and many other battles we set for ourselves.
At the end of July, the 24th National Congress National Executive Committee will meet to consolidate resolutions of Congress, and immediately afterwards, continue with massive mobilisation of the ANC, Alliance and various Communities behind the political programme we have set for ourselves.
The manner in which certain sections of the media and business have responded and the desperation they continue to display is a confirmation that the message of the ANC Youth League for fundamental change in economic policies is sinking into their minds and they realise these are issues they cannot avoid.
A clarion call is made to the whole of society to ready yourselves for Mines to be nationalised, expropriation to happen without compensation, development to be decentralised, and free education to be provided.
Statement issued by the ANC Youth League, July 20 2011
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