Great Khaya. Good work. On 10/27/11, Khaya Xaba <[email protected]> wrote: > *PRESS STATEMENT* > > *SOWETAN ARTICLE FALSE AND MALICIOUS* > > October 27, 2011 > > The Young Communist League of South Africa rejects with the contempt it > deserves the false attribution to our National Secretary, Buti Manamela, in > its article on today's edition of Sowetan that he inferred that we cannot be > led by "drop-outs" and "corrupt" leaders like Julius Malema. > > Our National Secretary has never inferred, directly or indirectly, to the > name of the President of the ANC Youth League or any other leader of the > alliance as being "corrupt" or being a school drop-out and in relation to > their leadership. > > Our National Secretary actually said that “in order for young people to be > employed or employable, we need to ensure that they love education. Young > people should never prefer the life of glitz, bling and glamour by pursuing > tenders and "easy money" but should focus on their education” > > He further said that “fake role models who don the showbiz section of our > newspapers worshipping money, blitz, bling and glamour.” > > As the YCLSA, we are not aware of any accusations or investigations against > Malema for corruption, and calls on The Sowetan to retract its > sensationalism and gutter journalism which seeks to misrepresent facts and > seek to deviate the objectives of the National Jobs for Youth Summit. > > We are not interested in the affairs of individuals, but are preoccupied > with how to change the lives of young people in the immediate and long term. > For the Sowetan to reduce the objectives of 176 organizations represented in > this National Jobs for Youth Summit to personalities and seek to fuel > tensions is nothing but a reflection of the most terrible standards of > journalism. > > For the record, we are determined to "make education fashionable" and ensure > that every young person is accorded that opportunity. Instead of condemning > people for their lack of education, we will encourage them to do so. We also > believe that everyone is innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law, > and not that of The Sowetan. > > We have telephonically referred the matter to the Editor of Sowetan, but > found no joy when he promised to investigate and come back to us, but failed > to do so. We call on The Sowetan to retract and publish an apology. > > Issued by the YCLSA > > For more information please contact Mafika Mndebele on 0825673557 > > -- > 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. You don't have to > put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to > this address (repeat): [email protected] . >
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