YCLSA.png YCLSA Press Statement, 19 May 2016 Continuous burning of institutions of higher education The Young Communist League of South Africa [uFasimba] notes with disgust the illegal criminal activities taking place in institutions of higher learning of burning university properties. The YCLSA believes that such actions of destruction of property is not only backwards, life threatening and counterproductive, but also exposes the lack of ideological orientation and anarchic syndicalism of the so called fees must fall remnants and the Economic Freedom Fighters [EFF] who fail to lead students but resort to targeting university property in a bid to seek attention. How EFF leaders behave in parliament is how their student command behaves in institutions of higher learning. A path of destruction must always exist wherever they are present. One cannot divorce the utterances of Julius Malema on his interview with Al Jazeera on April 23, 2016 that they are going to remove the current ANC-led government through the barrel of the gun. To us this means that they have conceded that they are not going to win the August 3, 2016 elections and they have to use violence to try and win the country. Day before the burning of the University of Fort Hare the EFF student command at the university tweeted that "The @MYANC must know we are getting impatient with what they're doing to our Mps. Julius Malema sinike ibhazuka. The country will burn". A few hours later the university did burn. As the YCLSA we refuse to treat both the burning of institutions of higher learning and schools as unprompted acts of vandalism. We hold a strong view that what happened in Vuwani, UJ, and Fort Hare is interconnected, our view is that one grouping is responsible for these acts of hooliganism. We suspect that all these acts of vandalism are aimed at creating turmoil in this country and that their ultimate goal is to agitate for regime change. On May 8, 2016 we raised our concerns about the deficiencies in the Ministry of State Security. The ministry continues to be reactive rather than being proactive. The Ministry must be able to sniff such acts before they even happen and act accordingly. The Ministry must be refocused so as to fulfil its role of defending this country and its democracy. The YCLSA agrees that students must raise their views without fear or favour. Student's interests must be championed without destroying property because Universities are a heritage of students and belong to the community. Students must guard jealously their Universities and must report any one involved in burning University properties. Universities must open up dialogue with students and must never refuse to communicate and listen to the concerns of students. The YCLSA calls on all its members and supporters from institutions of higher learning to distance themselves from any protest that burns or destroys property. We are going to meet our branches in UJ, Fort Hare and VUT as institutions that are targeted so that they assist us to find solutions for students in their institutions. We call for law and order to take its course and arrest all criminal elements. We are concerned that such criminal activities take place during exam time and disrupt the academic calendar in institutions concerned. It is not in the interest of students to burn their university buildings and anyone who fights on behalf of students must always remember this. For more information contact: Khaya Xaba, YCLSA Media Department -- -- 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/d/optout.
