*YCL Gauteng Press Statement*
*17th September 2014* The Young Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA) Ufasimba in Gauteng Province met on *14thSeptember 2014*, at POPCRU Provincial Office. The Provincial Executive Committee received Organisational and Political Reports as constitutionally required. The meeting also received a Political Input from the Provincial Executive Committee of the South African Communist Party (SACP) in Gauteng. The YCLSA PEC, together with the SACP, reflected on the 93 years of the South African Communist Party as established in 1921. Since formation the SACP has successfully organised itself in an evolving manner, drawing the basis of its organisational changes on the concrete political realities of South Africa at different epochs. The SACP has ceaselessly exercised its vanguard role on working-class struggles regardless of the changed political environment, including the years of illegality and repression under the Apartheid regime. As the PEC we agreed that this sterling record of adaptation and agility was as a result of the unwavering commitment of the Party to rigorous theoretical reflections and consistent employment of Marxism-Leninism in understanding a changing political environment with its related balance of forces. It is this fact that instructs the YCLSA to take up the task of studying the nature of the current political environment and the class-implications of some of the political trends that have emerged recently. The Provincial Executive Committee discussed various issues that are happening in our Province and the country. Amongst those issues are the disruptive fascist behaviour and anarchist element of the so called EFF, the conduct of the Public Protector, Adv. Thuli Madonsela and the incoming Provincial Congress of our glorious movement, African National Congress (ANC). Among other things, the meeting noted the progressive work done by the 5th democratic administration of Gauteng Province. This follows the decision by the masses of our people in Gauteng to restate their faith in our movement by giving the ANC and overwhelming electoral mandate in the May 7 General elections. The YCL also specially noted the work that has been done by the MEC of Human Settlements, who happens to be the Provincial Secretary of the SACP in Gauteng, Cde Jacob Mamabolo since the start of this 5th administration. We commend the ANC for having deployed this good leader to lead this crucial Department. As YCLSA in Gauteng, we are very pleased with the work that the MEC has done since his deployment *On EFF behaviour* The YCLSA in Gauteng is appalled by this Hitler-mentality and fascist behaviour that is being repeatedly demonstrated by EFF. As YCLSA, we have resolved that we can’t sit down and fold our arms when our hard fought-for democracy is undermined by these hooligans parading themselves as revolutionaries whilst in essence they are propagandist counter revolutionaries with red overalls in our Gauteng Legislature and the National Assembly. We call on all young people in Gauteng and all over the country to defend this hard earned democracy by confronting the EFF when they disrupt our Legislatures and our Parliament. Enough is enough!!!! The EFF has also fashioned itself as an organisation engaged in progressive anti-capitalist struggles. This is in stark contrast of the class status of their leaders and their means of class reproduction. The fact of their historical association with the plundering of state resources in Limpopo through corrupt capitalist means of accumulation cannot and should not be forgotten by genuine working-class forces in our country. The revolutionary-sounding slogans sustain a calculated political strategy to hopefully deceive the majority African working class into mortgaging their popular power and electoral majority to this band of opportunists. Their inconsistency in using genuine working class phraseology side-by-side with outright fascist tones of Afro chauvinism and sexism is revealing of their desperation to unleash whatever political wave they can find so as to amass political power. The real fact of the EFF is an attempt to lurch onto genuine working class concerns as an expedient political means of laying claim over state power. This would in turn be an opportunity for them to pursue their practices of wealth accumulation through the state, unhindered, as they would have been catapulted into power by unsuspecting masses of our people. Of course this class manipulation has short-legs and will soon be defeated as the true intentions of the EFF will gradually be exposed. *The conduct of the Office of the Public Protector* The YCLSA would like to question the criteria and the method that is being used to respond when complaints are lodged with the Office of the Public Protector.From where we are standing as the YCLSA in Gauteng; the dealings of that office are selective. It appears that the responses and selections of cases to investigate are not impartial. The YCLSA in Gauteng has noticed that the office picks and chooses some cases whilst shelving some in drawers to the extent that they gather dust without being investigated for reasons only known to the Public Protector’s office. We find this to be highly suspicious and irregular. We have observed over a period of time that the cases you appear to be most energetic on are those whose complaints have been submitted to you by opposition parties, particularly the DA, or such cases that open the ANC up to public attack. For us as the YCLSA in Gauteng, such complaints represent continuity of extra-parliamentary opposition politics. It appears that the Office of the Public Protector is highly relied upon in that regard. Since the serving Public Protector not only attended but addressed the DA’s rally in 2012 it has been very difficult to distinguish the politics of the DA from the selective dealing of complaints and cases by that office. In addition, the Public Protector seems to have adopted a politically charged style of work through the use of the media. The tendency to make comments that cast aspersion, almost of a smear campaign type, against particular persons who are affected by your investigations, specifically the President of the ANC and of the Republic of South Africa, Cde President Jacob Zuma, is highly problematic. What makes matters worse is that this is done in relation to reports that are yet to be released. In a sustained trend, all these reports get leaked from the Protector’s office and in a recent incident the blame was shoved towards the feet of a mythical senior leader of our glorious movement, the ANC. Surprisingly, and to prove the smear motives, the Public Protector failed to tell the public who is that senior leader of the ANC. All of this has led us to the conclusion that, seemingly, this office is cherry-picking cases that are already under media scrutiny and are, to borrow from Protector’s lexicon, “winnable” and would therefore result in praises and applauds from those quarters she seeks to appease, thereby resulting in well convened media briefings. *ANC Provincial Congress* The YCLSA in Gauteng has noted that the ANC in Gauteng will hold its elective Conference towards the end of this month of September. We would like to urge all the delegates to choose tried and tested, skilled and capacitated leaders to lead this province so that we can intensify the 2016 Local Government Election. We all know that during the fifth general election, this year in May, all counter revolutionaries were eyeing Gauteng. It is therefore important that we continue to close ranks and sustain the dominance of the ANC at local government level. We also want to see all Communists who are contesting as members of the ANC in their own right to be part of the incoming leadership collective of the ANC in Gauteng. We wish the ANC all the best and a successful Congress. *End* *Issued by YCLSA Gauteng Province* *Contact:* *Matankana Mothapo, YCLSA Gauteng Provincial Spokesperson - 0827590900 <0827590900>* -- -- 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. 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