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The African National Congress Youth League is totally disappointed with media, in particular some Eye Witness News agency, Talk 702/Cape Talk for dignifying some facebook postings that are allegedly linked to the ANC Youth League. These News agencies continue to raise false alarms about some hate speech they extract from facebook. The ANC Youth League has recurrently said and emphasised that we are against all forms of hate speech and will forever oppose attempts to threaten people based on race.

The ANC Youth League President does not have an official facebook fans page, and does not use facebook. The ANC Youth League has in more than one occasion reported facebook pages that spread hate speech, were illegally created and linked to the ANC Youth League and its leadership. Facebook is a social networking site and extremely vulnerable to fake impersonations and postings of hate speech and it's very sad that some news agencies treat facebook as a source of news and information.

The ANC Youth League ascribes to a non-racial South Africa, where black and white people live side by side in harmony. There are no intentions in the ANC Youth League to drive white people to the sea and anyone who believes that such is the case is disingenuous and most possibly disturbed. If they continue to rely on facebook, news agencies are at least encouraged to do deeper research and investigations on all people who spread hate speech through facebook and expose them and even report them to the legal authorities. Consistent with our approach of uprooting criminal tendencies in society, the ANC Youth League is more than ready to expose and report to the legal authorities, people who spread hate speech and lies in the name of the ANC Youth League. We therefore advice patriotic citizens to bring to our attention the real identity of agent provocateurs on facebook and we will expose them.