*MESSAGE OF THE YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE ON THE FUNERAL OF COMRADE KGOMOTSO MOGORE.*
* * *By Deputy National Secretary Khaye Nkwanyana.* 24 January 2009. Mogore family and relatives, The Leadership of SASCO, The Leadership of our congress movement, and All other protocols are being observed. Lastly everyone present today. We will never get so saturated as human kind, as to accustom to the passing on of anyone within our fold, No less when that person is of greater value, a rare species and one who was born for a particular mission. This is the case despite of the fact that we all know that we are, in fact, all mortal beings. The saying has always been that the young buries the old. But the opposite is true not to the Mogore family but to many in our country as young people, daily, departs from the World of the living. The Young Communist League (YCL) learnt with excessive shock the car accident and the subsequent loss of life of SASCO Deputy General Secretary. This is not a loss to the family and SASCO alone but to all of us as the Progressive Youth Alliance and the Alliance as a whole. This was the leader of our students and the youth in general of this country. Accordingly, as the Young Communist League, we lower our banner as we pay homage to the great leader that we have been robbed in his so tender an age, a person of greater value, a rare species and one who was born for a particular mission. The current leadership of SASCO to which Kgomotso was very much part, like the ancient Noah and his arch in the holy script tasked to save animal species from the God contemplated human savaging floods, represent a generation that has salvaged SASCO from the deadly political floods traversing the entire alliance which had to be defeated in the ANC conference at Polokwane. So savage and deadly those floods as were represented, demonstrably, by the leadership of SASCO that most of us, at a time, feared to even mention that we are what we are, politically, the product of SASCO. The membership of SASCO in the last Congress said that never shall it be that the scavengers will continue successively be elected to lead and feed on its carcass in the interest of forces of reactionary camp. Today SASCO lives and SASCO leads. We pay homage to one of our collective own, a person of greater value, a rare species and a son born for a particular mission. We should mourn the loss of any cadre as it takes time and years to produce a fine cadre, no less a leader at a capacity of leadership to which Kgomotso Maroge led. Indeed one is equal too many. As we surrender him to the prepared space in the soil for permanent rest, we should draw solace to the fact that, he departed as a joyous cadre of the organization for he led and won the lobby that all of us went through and left to succeeding generation of leadership, the move towards implementation of the Free and Compulsory Education up to the Tertiary level. He was part of the move towards what we are to build, the formation of the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) replacing docile structures such as Youth Commission and Umsobomvu Fund. He was gratified to see the increased recognition of young people within the alliance and their role in shaping the landscape of which he was very much part. He was also confident that the ANC will win overwhelmingly in the next coming elections despite the emergence of the Judas Iscariots marketing themselves as Congress of the People. He had no doubt that we will finish them to extinction. If there is anything in honour to Kgomotso's memory is to go out and mobilize for the ANC victory. People must be told the truth that ANC will improve education and Health in this country for the poor, ANC will electrify our rural country-sides which have remained the enclaves of our ugly past in the present. People must be told that ANC will increase child support grants progressively in terms of age beneficiation, that we will create more jobs through EPWP and in other interventions. We must debunk lies peddled by COPE against the movement that we have departed from the Freedom Charter. In fact we must call it in its real character as the reincarnation of the Nationalist Party in the form of black skin pigmentation in its leadership. After their defeat, they will consume themselves like a wounded snake that expedites its death out of unbearable pains from wounds! That is why F.W De Klerk, yesterday, poured insults to the ANC about its decision to recall the President and he goes further to be pleased in the formation of COPE which he sees as will give the ANC a run in the coming elections. We want to say De Klerk you are nothing but an anachronism of the bygone past that only live and survive through our tax money because of being the former President. Such De Klerk sentiments are similar to those of Arch bishop Tutu, our yesteryear hero and today's reactionary. He has even announced that he will never vote this year. We hope that he will never open his mouth on any issue about government because he would have forfeited his right to voice by not voting. In fact we do not care about him. We want thank all of those in the organization, different components of our MDM who might have had a contribution to his political growth. * * We once again salute comrade Kgomotso and the contribution he made, while he was still alive, to the struggle for young people. The family rather be proud that they were fortunate to have ever gave birth to a being so brought to for a particular mission, a young person but no usual a young person but a rare young, and a young of greater value to our revolution. May his soul rest in peace, Robala ka hotso comrade Kgomotso. * * * * --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. 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