A HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISH TO THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS YOUTH LEAGUE (ANCYL) IS NOT A RHETHORIC It takes a true revolutionary to understand and acknowledge a signal that the 70th anniversary of the ANCYL is worth celebrating. By being passionate and indebted to the latter, we do not make any claim for this glorious movement to be a paragon of virtue rather we are in denial of some branded hallucinations that seek to dishonour, despite the undesirable residue of apartheid, the cause of freedom that was bequeathed by our heroes and heroines of our beloved Nation to the generation of this epoch. It is shocking that some have strongly attempted to isolate the 1994 political break through from the historical evolution of the ANCYL, that should be isolated and corrected in its infancy for it is advanced to say the least and just mere misrepresentation of facts which emanates from high political opportunism. In 1944, the then young ANC members took on the task to define the future of this country, their fundamental battle cry was “freedom in our life time”. As young as they were, in terms of age, they consolidated antagonistic characters out of centuries of conflicts and divisions into one common vision about this country. There can be no better measure of the degree of complete loyalty to principles they manifested than not to betray the legacy they laid. They owed their allegiance to the most downtrodden strata in Society which was a day to day victim of the then devilish apartheid brutality. 1994 became possible because of the evolution of the YL in 1944 so rather than only celebrating we should equally reflect a central task by asking ourselves as young people; what is the future our country? How far in terms of achieving the National reconciliation? How far in terms of totally dismantling the injustices which were intrinsic to the apartheid system? To what extent are we measuring them to the standard they set in terms of quality of leadership? How loyal are we to the values they represented, not only in terms of what we say behind the podiums but in terms of what we do? The aforesaid is of paramount importance to sustain their legacy in pursuit of ensuring that we do not betray what they stood for. The total exclusion of blacks in general and South Africans in particular from the mainstream of the economy, law decision makings, decent employment, political activism, customary practice, Public participation, qualitative education, etc by the Apartheid regime was a total disregard of their integrity with ensuring that they lack strategies and tactics to fight back and defeat such satanic conducts which can only be described as a taboo to morals and ethics, but through determination and political wiliness they succeeded in outweighing that undemocratic Government which presided over the suppressed vast majority inhabitants of our nation. Despite other peripheral ramifications, the Youth of 1944 landed our beloved Nation to the democratic dispensation we attained and celebrated in 1994. Of cause with all due logical coherence it accords with reasonableness to acclaim the eradication of the apartheid system followed by the introduction of new post apartheid policies like: The local Government Municipal structures Act, Local Government municipal Systems Act, Local Government municipal Demarcation which ensure public participation through: Integrated Development Programme (IDP), ward committees, and so on and so forth. We equally take into account the new schemes that were introduces post 1994 at the work place to circumvent exportation of works by the employer like, the Labour Relations Act, Employment equity Act, Basic condition of employment Act, etc. It would be a monumental blunder not to mention the schemes in the higher institutions of learning which ensure access of the children of the working class to the system so that they can change the leaving conditions in their respective catastrophic communities. The incorporation of some human right in our constitution Act 108 of 1996 which were influenced by the Universal of Declaration of Human right is another reflection of National Revolutionary Consciousness. This is worth celebrating as well in pursuit of Human solidarity and Social cohesion. The last National Congress of the African National congress Youth league in 2011 was quite correct when it identified economic freedom in our life time as our generational mission. The two decades of democracy have not established a radical transformation of the economy from the hands of the white monopoly capitalist to ownership and control by the majority of the people of this country. Mineral energy and finance complex is still in the hands of the white supremacy, as such the South African economy by nature is semi colonial the growth trajectory. The micro economic policies adopted in 1996 which talk about growth, economy and employment leaves colonisation of a special type intact, and the finance capital continues to be dominant. Cheap labour has become a dominant base for the citizens of this country. As we celebrate side by side and across the country we should be inspired by such poor conditions of the people of this country, failing to do so, political opportunists will acquire political ammunition. I have enough confidence that the ANCYL will never decide to ignore this struggle because it is the only revolutionary object that characterises and shapes its objectives and mission. However, in pursuit of economic freedom in our life time, we should impose some questions to guide our actions; do we radicalise the membership of the movement to ensure its readiness to wage this battle? Do we revitalise the branches of the YL to ensure that they are charged with the primary oversight functioning of the organization? Do we still accept a cross pollination of ideas and become tolerant to them? Do we still run the processes of the organisation fairly and democratically with transparency? To the best of my observation the movement is trying to fulfil the aforementioned questions but some elements of factionalism manifest themselves spontaneously. Primarily we should make political education fashionable, if we can capacitate our young lions political we won’t encounter any challenge of il-deciplin, factionalism, dictatorship and dogmatism in the sole of our movement. The reason why some of our current leaders are so passionate about manipulating organizational processes is because they lack revolutionary morality, which is as a result of becoming slow with a process of tendering political classes at branch level. Some of these leaders delay these political classes deliberately because of paranoia; they want to lead people who are politically naive so that they cannot be challenged intellectually/ideologically. Political classes are imposing threats to some leaders because they think the organization is a self profiling entity or a route to cadre deployment. Some are aloof to political classes because they are always afraid of being outshined politically. Contrary to popularly myth, our movement will never progress as long it’s still not immune to the former and the latter. On one way or the other, hostility against people who possess different views should be dislodged at all material costs. The contribution of Anton Lembede, Oliver Tambo, Nelson Mandela is indebted to the soul of our movement, thy shall not perish. We celebrate it side by side we should remember that after such events others we go back to sleep in their squatter settlements while others will sleep in luxurious houses. Others will go back to their homes by a public transport while others will be driving expensive cars. Others will go eat delicious in hotels while others will struggle to generate means for buying a bread of R850c. Others will go back to their air-conditioned offices the following day while others will continue to watch the sun rise and set . THE ANCYL IN WHICH WE AFFILIATE DOES NOT ONLY BELONG TO US BUT ALSO TO THE YET GENERATION. ( HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY KHONGOLOSE WENTSHA) ALUTA CONTINUA! BY CDE SIBONELO NOMVALO KIND REGARDS CDE SIBONELO NOMVALO ANCYL MEMBER IN KWAZULU NATAL PROVINCE, HARRY GWALA REGION, ADELAIDE TAMBO BRANCH (WARD 11).
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 18:30:28 +0000
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