Alliance of four, 2.png ANC, SACP, COSATU, SANCO, Gauteng Province, Press Statement, 24 June 2016 ANC-led alliance congratulates UP The ANC-led alliance congratulates the University of Pretoria for an open, transparent and democratic process in adopting a new language policy. The African National Congress and its alliance partners; the South African Communist Party (SACP), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and South African National Civic Organisation (SANCO) welcome and congratulates the Pretoria University's historic and groundbreaking process of adopting a new language policy. Following two weeks marred by outbreak of violence, anarchy and racial tensions at the University that led to the longest ever shutdown in the history of the University in February this year, the Alliance intervened to stabilise the University. The Alliance intervention was also as a result of the engagement with the AFRIFORUM, mainly to hear its grievance about the perceived or real undemocratic, exclusive, elitist deal-making by the University on such a sensitive and highly emotional matter. The ANC-led Alliance recommended that the university follows an all-inclusive, transparent, democratic and open process to develop a new language policy. This was necessary to contribute to social cohesion, non-racialism and stability on campus, and also to avoid real threats of racial violence. African languages The alliance therefore advised the University to consider the further development of African languages and to deal with the perception that the Afrikaans language was facing an existential threat. This intervention isolated anarchists, populists, demagogues and fanatics of violence. Since the intervention the university has been stable up to date. We can only hope that none of the stakeholders participated in the process with predetermined outcomes. We therefore hope that all stakeholders will accept and welcome the outcome of this inclusive and democratic process. The Alliance believes that the process followed by UP is in line with the tenets of our constitution and the ANC's efforts to create an integrated, non-racial society. Issued by the ANC, SACP, COSATU, SANCO Gauteng Province: 1. Hope Mankwana Papo - ANC Gauteng Provincial Secretary 2. Dumisani Dakile - COSATU Gauteng Provincial Secretary 3. Thuliswa Nkabinde - SANCO Gauteng Provincial Secretary 4. Jacob Mamabolo - SACP Gauteng Provincial Secretary For further information, contact: Nkenke Kekana, ANC Gauteng Provincial Head of Communications, 083 900 0096 Dumisani Dakile, COSATU Gauteng Provincial Secretary Thuliswa Nkabinde, SANCO Gauteng Provincial Secretary Lucian Segami, SACP Gauteng Provincial Spokesperson, 079 522 0098 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13700 (20160624) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- 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]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/002d01d1ce1a%241c53a390%2454faeab0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
