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The ANC Youth League has learnt with varying degrees of shock, disbelief
and disgust of the charges that the defender of white privilege,
Afriforum, seeks to bring against the Deputy President of the African
National Congress Youth League, Comrade Ronald Lamola.
The organisation would like to make it categorically clear that neither
the ANCYL, its members, leaders nor the general population of South
Africa will ever be intimidated by those who want to preserve the
economic status quo of this country. The call of the ANCYL, members of
the ANC, the trade unions and South Africans in general for the speedy
return of our land and our birth right has never today nor will it ever
require approval from unpatriotic white farmers and landowners.
We reaffirm the statement made by the Deputy President of the Youth
League that those who continue to hold land which was illegally and
immorally taken away from the indigenous people of South Africa must
voluntarily cooperate with the ANC-led government ensure swift and
equitable redistribution of such land to the masses of our people. The
willing buyer willing seller principle has failed our people. We caution
against continuing to prioritise greed at the expense of the majority and
once again echo the sentiments of the Deputy President that the ANC or
the ANCYL may not be able to stem the tide of impatience with the pace of
change from the destitute and landless millions of South Africans.
Such a precautionary note raising the hopeless plight of our people
blacks in general and Africans in particular can only be construed as an
incitement to violence only by those hell-bent to protect white minority
privilege at the expense of the black majority’s expense.
We will not be shaken in our quest for Economic Freedom in our Lifetime
and at the centre of that programme is the need for urgent, unapologetic
and radical land redistribution; if need be we are prepared to fight with
all that we have for that which our people should have.