*YCLSA Vaal Press Statement*
April 8, 2013 * * *YCLSA Vaal District DEC Statement* The Young Communist League of South Africa [uFasimba] in the Sedibeng District Municipality, Gauteng Province convened a District Executive Committee meeting yesterday. This was in line with the YCLSA Gauteng Provincial Programme of Action guidelines. This DEC meeting followed a highly successful District Lekgotla, which was held last month. The meeting received a political input from a PEC Deployee, the district political and organisational reports, and thus assessed the political and organisational situation in the district. *Chris Hani Commemoration * The meeting took place just three days prior to the 20th anniversary of the commemoration of the cowardly assassination of Chris Hani by right-wing forces on 10 April 1993. Hani was the General Secretary of the SA Communist Party, African National Congress National Executive Committee member and served as Chief of Staff of the revolutionary liberation army, uMkhonto weSizwe (MK). Although he is no more, the ideals for which he was assassinated continue to exist. As an integral part of the SA Communist Party and the advanced section of the youth of our country, we shall intensify the struggle to achieve them, i.e. the success of the national democratic revolution and the struggle for socialism. We therefore reaffirm our commitment to fight corruption and maladministration. This includes fighting the manipulation of public wealth and resources by elitist groupings that have emerged from among the historically oppressed and have established new alliances, through private accumulation dealings, with the historical oppressor and imperialist forces. Quality service to our people, which Hani stood for, cannot be delivered through a monstrous capitalist system, its reformist and corrupt approaches, but through socialism, which stands for universal emancipation in all spheres of human activity, political, economic, social and cultural. The challenges of extra ordinarily tenderpreneuring are threatening to reduce our movement from being liberation movement to a bandwagon of ‘*political tsotsis*’ who are determined to lull the rest of us around passivity in between elections and to enrich themselves through access to state resources at the expense of the working class and the poor. It is our assessment of national liberation movements that once they ascend to political power they tend to attract careerists and all sorts of self-interested opportunists whose deeds seek to erode the fabric of the fundamental principles for which those movements have in the first place been constituted. These tendencies are visible in our district. In dedication to Hani and our duty and communist combatants, we shall deploy both our capacities and capabilities everywhere in the struggle to combat them. * * *Towards a single system of metropolitan municipality * On the 11 April 2013 the Municipal Demarcation Board will be embarking on public consultation meetings about the proposal to establish a metropolitan municipality in Sedibeng District. As the YCLSA we support the move of integrating both the local municipalities of Midvaal and Emfuleni as well as the district municipality of Sedibeng into one metropolitan municipality. However we do not support some certain elements that are brought forward such as the so-called transitional period. It is our view that the elitist groupings in the province and political tsotsis are becoming opportunistic about the processes. To them the metropolitan status is not about improving the level of Service provision but it is about looting, hence they never delayed to appoint Deloitte Touche to serve as consultants to quickly work on possibilities of establishing a shared services centre. The so-called shared services centres are notorious in Gauteng for tender corruption and patronage. The ugly example of the Gauteng Shared Services is there for everyone to see. While it has been curtailed, there are elements of elitist groupings and political tsotsis who have become millionaires out of the Gauteng Shared Services Centre. We are also not in support of the so called regional authority. It is nothing else but power mongering and a smooth transition in looting. In Gauteng, it is difficult to trust elitist groupings and political tsotsis who always pretend to be the leaders of our people but in actual fact they are not – they are essentially leaders of their own private projects to loot and accumulate capital. This has been proven by a reshuffling in Emfuleni Local Municipality towards Mangaung, undertaken under the pretext of strengthening the municipality. This was in actual fact embedded in a factional agenda of the so-called change that failed in Mangaung. We never supported this rotten and poisonous plan. After the move failed, the elitist groupings and political tsotsis swapped positions identifying the Department of Roads and Transport as the zone and opportunity within the municipality. Some elements supporting these groupings, including politicians, were inserted in and corrupted the municipal payroll. A list of companies from political tsotsis to be awarded tenders found its way in the municipality. We will fight these demons until our people are considered and prioritised when it comes to local economic development and quality, accessible service delivery. The DEC meeting declared combat against all these tsotsis. Victory is certain. It is only a matter of time. We will cut the pipelines of corruption from the provincial elitist groupings which committed themselves in building the accumulation chains down in municipalities. If we lose in this battle, which is inconceivable, at least for now, the following projects will essentially be nothing by a looting spree: the Vereeniging Taxi Rank, Solar and Geyser Green economy project, Evaton Renewal Project and Metrorail station and a big project of the regional sewer scheme. We therefore will approach our PEC and the next Provincial Council to call on national government to take over the administration of such projects. The money looted from such projects is often also used to disrupt organisational processes through patronage and bribery, to produce instant “leadership” and reproduce factional grip on power. *The Vaal University of Technology is surrounded by elitist groupings and has been corrupted* We are concerned that these elitist groupings and political tsotsis are sweeping everything. Now they have gone as far as the Vaal University of Technology (VUT), disrupting the education of our brothers and sisters. We are concerned that if these elites cannot be stopped, VUT will have to close shop due to bankruptcy that could result from looting. We know by now that in January, some elements were running around VUT with their company certificates at hand, bulldozing staff members in the institution and forcing them to allocate tenders to their companies, using their status in our movement. Issued by the YCLSA Vaal DEC For more information contact: Tembinkosi Pulu YCLSA Vaal District Secretary Cell: 083 593 7062 -- -- 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] . 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