ANC Youth League Statement on the Final Results of 2014 National and Provincial Elections
11 May 2014
THANKING YOUTH
The ANC Youth League profoundly appreciates the role young people have played in determining the positive outcome of the 2014 National and Provincial Elections. We believe that it is through a massive youth vote that the ANC has been returned into power, thus signifying a brighter future for South Africa`s Liberation Movement, the disciplined force of the left - the African National Congress (ANC). The youth has once more showed that they are the defenders of the National Democratic Revolution and the apparent inheritors of a better South Africa being created.
As the organisation of young people in the ANC, we remain steadfast in our commitment to inject new life and progressive thought into the ANC. We shall continue to mobilise young people of South Africa behind the ANC`s vision of a creation of a non-sexist, non-racial, democratic and economically prosperous country, Africa and the world - where in all people have equal access to various opportunities.
The over-all peaceful elections of 2014 give us hope for a stable political and economic condition going forward. We heard some disturbing utterances from anarchists that think to wear red and a beret is to be revolutionary, but we are thankful to the careful and responsible mind of the citizenry that never heed to calls of destroying some State property and disregarded the foolish calls by desperate thugs who hide by politics.
FUTURE SAFE IN THE ANC HANDS
The future of our country is only safe in the capable hands of the ANC, thus it remains our conviction that true economic
emancipation of the masses of our people can only take place under a responsible and careful guide of the ANC. All other voices can propose short-cuts and populist views but can put the very fragile democratic gains under threat and can collapse the South African economy.
THANKFUL TO PRESS ROLE
As the ANC Youth League, we also pass our words of unreserved gratitude to the members of the South African Press who have helped strengthen our democracy over the past 20 years through keeping the citizenry well-informed. We even appreciate the role played by those who openly criticized us and choose to encourage the South African populace to vote anyway but not ANC. Their determination and hatred towards ANC helped us gain sympathy and revived the consciousness of our cadres to remember that when Apartheid thrived there were business and media people who benefitted and wish we can go back to those White Supremacists rule days.
The Mail and Guardian and eTV have been the major leaders of the anti-ANC press and we won without their positive coverage. They remain a part of South African media that has no ear of the majority of our people. They can please each other and package their content in anyway - but they will never be a factor in South African political landscape.
We urge various journalists to continue reporting impartially and truthfully without seeking to favour anyone.
MANIFESTO IMPLEMENTATION
We have worked as part of the ANC machinery promising people jobs, skills development programmes, better education system and government intervention to ensure access to higher education and better health care system in our door-to-door visits and in rallies. As the ANC have won now, we want all these done. The process has been started; we will be the ANC`s ear and eyes on the ground reporting on each and every government regional or district office`s conduct and interaction with the citizens. Time for lame-duck directors and bureaucrats is over. The dead-wood we got from Bantustans and Apartheid governments should be reskilled and taught the Batho Pele principles or be dismissed. We want a caring bureaucratic corp.
As the ANC Youth League, we will be continuing with our organisational re-building exercise. Thus, we will hold our Regional Congresses and Provincial ones in a build-up to a National Congress in September 2014. A month where-in we will be celebrating 70 years of existence and revolutionary work. In all the political work we are to do, top on our agenda will be to make sure that 2014 Elections Manifesto get simplified to fit in a local, provincial and national sphere of government through practical implementation. We want this Manifesto to now take a form of an implementable programme and not to remain a policy position. Each and every District Office of government should have a way of knowing what to do in relation to the 2014 ANC Manifesto.
We remain the disciplined and militant youth voice of the ANC and we shall ensure that the future of South Africans is peaceful, safe and economically prosperous. We thank all those who made our country a true democracy for all races and tribes. We are thankful to the wise and inspirational guidance that we continue to get from the ANC National Executive Committee, particularly the President, Jacob Zuma.
Issued by
African National Congress Youth League
FOR INTERVIEWS:
Dr. Bandile Masuku (ANC Youth League) - 071 574 4513
Issued by the African National Congress Youth League
Dr Bandile Masuku
ANCYL National Spokesperson
071 574 4513
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| ANC campaigning prior to 2014 elections. |
THANKING YOUTH
The ANC Youth League profoundly appreciates the role young people have played in determining the positive outcome of the 2014 National and Provincial Elections. We believe that it is through a massive youth vote that the ANC has been returned into power, thus signifying a brighter future for South Africa`s Liberation Movement, the disciplined force of the left - the African National Congress (ANC). The youth has once more showed that they are the defenders of the National Democratic Revolution and the apparent inheritors of a better South Africa being created.
As the organisation of young people in the ANC, we remain steadfast in our commitment to inject new life and progressive thought into the ANC. We shall continue to mobilise young people of South Africa behind the ANC`s vision of a creation of a non-sexist, non-racial, democratic and economically prosperous country, Africa and the world - where in all people have equal access to various opportunities.
The over-all peaceful elections of 2014 give us hope for a stable political and economic condition going forward. We heard some disturbing utterances from anarchists that think to wear red and a beret is to be revolutionary, but we are thankful to the careful and responsible mind of the citizenry that never heed to calls of destroying some State property and disregarded the foolish calls by desperate thugs who hide by politics.
FUTURE SAFE IN THE ANC HANDS
The future of our country is only safe in the capable hands of the ANC, thus it remains our conviction that true economic
emancipation of the masses of our people can only take place under a responsible and careful guide of the ANC. All other voices can propose short-cuts and populist views but can put the very fragile democratic gains under threat and can collapse the South African economy.
THANKFUL TO PRESS ROLE
As the ANC Youth League, we also pass our words of unreserved gratitude to the members of the South African Press who have helped strengthen our democracy over the past 20 years through keeping the citizenry well-informed. We even appreciate the role played by those who openly criticized us and choose to encourage the South African populace to vote anyway but not ANC. Their determination and hatred towards ANC helped us gain sympathy and revived the consciousness of our cadres to remember that when Apartheid thrived there were business and media people who benefitted and wish we can go back to those White Supremacists rule days.
The Mail and Guardian and eTV have been the major leaders of the anti-ANC press and we won without their positive coverage. They remain a part of South African media that has no ear of the majority of our people. They can please each other and package their content in anyway - but they will never be a factor in South African political landscape.
We urge various journalists to continue reporting impartially and truthfully without seeking to favour anyone.
MANIFESTO IMPLEMENTATION
We have worked as part of the ANC machinery promising people jobs, skills development programmes, better education system and government intervention to ensure access to higher education and better health care system in our door-to-door visits and in rallies. As the ANC have won now, we want all these done. The process has been started; we will be the ANC`s ear and eyes on the ground reporting on each and every government regional or district office`s conduct and interaction with the citizens. Time for lame-duck directors and bureaucrats is over. The dead-wood we got from Bantustans and Apartheid governments should be reskilled and taught the Batho Pele principles or be dismissed. We want a caring bureaucratic corp.
As the ANC Youth League, we will be continuing with our organisational re-building exercise. Thus, we will hold our Regional Congresses and Provincial ones in a build-up to a National Congress in September 2014. A month where-in we will be celebrating 70 years of existence and revolutionary work. In all the political work we are to do, top on our agenda will be to make sure that 2014 Elections Manifesto get simplified to fit in a local, provincial and national sphere of government through practical implementation. We want this Manifesto to now take a form of an implementable programme and not to remain a policy position. Each and every District Office of government should have a way of knowing what to do in relation to the 2014 ANC Manifesto.
We remain the disciplined and militant youth voice of the ANC and we shall ensure that the future of South Africans is peaceful, safe and economically prosperous. We thank all those who made our country a true democracy for all races and tribes. We are thankful to the wise and inspirational guidance that we continue to get from the ANC National Executive Committee, particularly the President, Jacob Zuma.
Issued by
African National Congress Youth League
FOR INTERVIEWS:
Dr. Bandile Masuku (ANC Youth League) - 071 574 4513
Issued by the African National Congress Youth League
Dr Bandile Masuku
ANCYL National Spokesperson
071 574 4513
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