The YCLSA Gauteng`s response to attacks on YCLSA and SACP leaders by one Julius Malema

25 November 2009

The Young Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA) in the province of Gauteng notes the continued weak attacks of the YCLSA and SACP leaders by one loosely structured Julius Malema who suffers from verbal diarrhoea. In an article that appeared in a daily newspaper Sowetan, on Monday 23 November 2009, Julius is attributed to be saying that the YCLSA does not have a programme of its own and membership. If this is true it would not be the first time without any success that Julius attempts to kill for his handlers all YCLSA members. As such we have no reason to be afraid of him. Julius is also attributed to be levelling a meaningless allegation that communists, and by extension the YCLSA, want to turn the ANC into a Communist Party.

To set the record straight, the YCLSA is alive, has a programme and not just members, but quality members, well trained activists who can provide Julius with the political education he direly needs.

To mention but at least only two components of the YCLSA programme that are aimed at securing the momentary interests of young workers: in line with the 2008 National Alliance Summit resolutions we have been actively campaigning for a review of all outsourced services with an intention to bring them back into government; we have also been campaigning for the abolition of labour brokers. In this for instance as the YCLSA in Gauteng we have zealously as a reliant force been working together with the South African Trade Unions (COSATU), some of its affiliates, South African Student Congress (SASCO), Congress of South African Students (COSAS) and the many young workers who suffer from the brutality of labour brokers. This includes young workers whose work is outsourced from government. By the way Julius is a tender-preneur, not a genuine entrepreneur but a parasitic petty capitalist who relies on political proximity to different spheres of government and associated tenders.

We have no reason to be threatened by a disrespectful Julius`s empty rhetoric that is aimed at entrenching accumulation from taxpayers` monies through an attempt to derail the National Democratic Revolution (NDR) into a Tenderlution (T) – parasitic capitalist struggle for survival from tenders. We support all parents to continue motivating their children; and all young people, Black and White to, prioritise education. We call on all parents to intensify efforts in teaching their children the dangers of learning from Julius.

As the YCLSA in Gauteng we will be convening in our 11th Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) Plenary Session from the 4th – 5th December 2009. Organisational and political issues that our PEC will deal with include a re-emerging trend from within our ANC-led National Liberation Movement (NLM) to isolate ANC-SACP members with an intention of suppressing and denying them or curtailing their participation rights. In this regard we shall comprehensively respond by all means at our disposal to anti-communists and anti-trade unionists agenda that Julius, his handlers and others have adopted. We shall defend our ANC-led NLM from being hijacked for narrow, patronage-based and self-centred capitalist interests that will stop at nothing including to abuse funerals to pursue its agenda.

We remain committed to a genuine call for the nationalisation and socialisation, not only of mines, but of all our country`s strategic resources and services including service delivery.

Issued by the Young Communist League of South Africa Gauteng Province

For further information contact

Alex Mashilo – 082 9200 308
YCLSA Gauteng Provincial Secretary

Gugu Ndima
+27 76 783 1516