H Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -----Original Message----- From: Khaya Xaba <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:50:38 To: yclsa-eom-forum<[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] YCLSA EXPECTATIONS ON THE 2013 BUDGET SPEECH
*YCLSA Press Statement * February 26, 2013 *YCLSA EXPECTATIONS ON THE 2013 BUDGET SPEECH* The Young Communist League of South Africa [uFasimba] will be paying special attention to the Budget speech that will be presented by the Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan, tomorrow. This budget speech must focus on bringing on board interventions that will ensure that we advance decisively towards achieving our developmental goals as a country. *Infrastructure* As the YCLSA we believe that the budget must pay significant attention on infrastructure development. The President in the State of the Nation Address of 2012 spoke extensively of an infrastructure plan to be rolled out. We believe that the plan should be our flagship project. Through the infrastructure development plan we will hit one bird with one stone. We will be able to fix dilapidated infrastructure and build new ones while creating employment. Approaches that were adopted to support the elite-based infrastructure projects that characterise Gauteng province must be avoided completely going forward. This required that all relevant information be declared whenever we talk about infrastructure funding. *Health* More funds needs to be channelled into our health system to save it from total collapse. Our hospitals and clinic lack the necessary infrastructure to be able to provide decent health services to the working class and the poor. We welcome the pilot projects of the National Health Insurance and expect the Finance Minister to allocate adequate resources. *Education* All public schools must be 100% no fees schools in order to achieve the goal of universal education for all children. This will go a long way in ensuring that education is accessible to the working class and the poor. All public schools must have a school feeding scheme to ensure that learners have something to eat while they are in school. We welcome the plans to build two universities both in Mpumalanga and in the Northern Cape. More funds need to be allocated to the National Student Financial Aid Scheme of South Africa for historically and previously disadvantaged students. *Unemployment* We remain strongly opposed to the Youth Wage Subsidy which the Finance Department and the DA have been pushing. We appreciate that government, as clearly reflected in this year’s State of the Nation Address delivered by President Zuma, has since shifted from the mantra of the Youth Wage Subsidy to the process that is underway at NEDLAC of developing an accord on addressing youth unemployment. The R5 billion that that the Finance Department reserved previously for the Youth Wage Subsidy must be used constructively to support the objectives of the accord once it is agreed to and conclude by the social partners inclusive of the community constituency which as the YCLSA we are part. Issued by YCLSA Head Office For more information contact: Khaya Xaba YCLSA National Spokesperson Cell: 071 115 4619 <071%20115%204619> Tel: 011 339 3621 Email: [email protected] Twitter: @chedetachment -- -- 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] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- 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] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
