*Limpopo PYA Press Statement Media Statement* * *
August 20, 2013 *Limpopo PYA Statement* The Progressive Youth Alliance Summit in Limpopo ended its three days summit on a higher note which was organized by African National Congress Youth League Provincial Task Team [ANCYL PTT]. This was an historic summit as it was the first in four years. It was held at the Moses Mabotha Civic Hall in Fetakgomo Local Municipality in Sekhukhune District, from the 16th to the 18th August 2013. The PYA is comprised of ANCYL, South African Student Congress [SASCO], Congress of South African Students [COSAS] and the Young Communist League of South Africa [YCLSA].The summit resolved on a number of key issues which it feels that government need to look into. The following are the key issues resolved upon: · That the Provincial Government should provide books to the learners in time to avoid the problems faced in the previous year as this has the potential to harm the future of the kids. · Corruption in the provincial government should be dealt with those found to be involved to commit corruption should be prosecuted without fear and favour. · Funding for youth cooperatives should be relaxed so that young people could be able to access funding to start their own businesses which will lead them to create jobs and at the same time reducing unemployment among themselves. · Resolved to convene Youth Economic Summit which will deal with the problems of youth unemployment in the province following the dialogue with ANC Deputy President. The PYA feels strongly that the tenderization of the State is not sustainable. It is therefore of the view that in the future the government should reduce the way government does it procurement. The government should be able to use its workforce than have to rely on tenders and PYA believes that this is not difficult to implement. · There will be a common manifesto by PYA structures but contestation of elections will be done under the banner of SASCO. Therefore there will be no contestation by PYA structures on Campuses in Limpopo in Institutions of higher learning.The Summit also resolved that the National Health Insurance that is led by the Department of Health through its Minister Dr Aaron Motsaoledi should be supported. The PYA believes that the NHI is going to help majority of our people who are mostly poor and black who cannot access private hospitals because of their exorbitant prices. · HIV/AIDS continues to be challenges facing the country. Even though the Government has made huge progress through the Health Department among them the big roll out of ARVs and increase in the number of people testing for the pandemic and the reduction in infections, the PYA has committed itself to increase the fight against the disease. This will be done through having campaigns to encourage young people to test for the pandemic, encouraging young people to Abstain, Condomise and be faithful to their partners. - Adoption of the ANC election strategy and delivering of the youth vote to the ANC in the 2014 National elections. · Members of the alliance should continue to lobby the ruling party in ensuring that youth development and challenges facing young people remain a priority. Issued by PYA Limpopo -- -- 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.
