ATTENTION: NEWS AND POLITICAL EDITORS AND JOURNALISTS YCLSA happy that Madiba is Well Spirited and Alive
30 April 2013 For Immediate Release The Young Communist League of South Africa [uFasimba] would like to thank the Mandela family and the ANC for allowing South Africans and the world to have a glimpse of a recovering Nelson Mandela on national and global television and as confirmation that the 94 year old former President is well spirited and alive. We support the initiative by the leadership of the ANC to continue to visit Mandela at his home, and to consistently inform our people on the state of his health. What the ANC and the family has done will also ensure that South Africans do not camp outside of his Houghton home with the hope of seeing the ailing Mandela, and therefore turn this into an act of privilege for some as has been the case with visits to Mandela. As the YCLSA, we are baffled by why some people turned this gesture into a cheap political scoring point, insinuating that the ANC is using this as a publicity stunt. Mandela belongs to the ANC and the people of our country, and therefore, his state of health and well-being should never be privatised. Some of the so-called concerned South Africans were quite, and therefore tacitly supported the highjacking of Mandela by the Democratic Alliance and Helen Zille in their attempt to rewrite our history. Some of the people who righteously condemned the ANC includes media houses who camped outside Mandela's house, whilst others have 'prepared for the eventuality' and readied their media houses to cross live from Houghton to report Mandela's death and can never let the family and the old man to rest. Some of this cynics have also in the passed questioned the veracity of reports from The Presidency on Mandela's health, and wanted our people to live in doubt on whether Mandela is dead or alive. The ANC President, together with the family, should not apologise for the visit or for letting our people know that Mandela is well and recovering from illness. We should accept that Mandela is ageing, therefore frail and we should never be ashamed to see him in the manner we saw him on national television. In his own words, Mandela had said that he is "not sick but ageing". Beyond all the immortal acts that Mandela has done, he is, after all, human. Issued by the YCLSA National Office For more information please contact Khaya Xaba at 071 115 4619 @Chedetachment @ButiManamela Sent from my iPhone -- -- 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.
