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The Young Communist League of the Free State wishes to set the record straight that it carries no support for a person or institution that continues to be symbolic of an embodiment of a former racist regime.
We have said before that all of us are for reconciliation and forgiveness for as long as the two are correctly carried along with the judicial process. We believe that the act of forgiving while the court is facing the task to deal with the behaviour of the perpetrators is just a desire to pursue the court otherwise and it must be condemned. Forgiveness is a good intention, "yes" but good intentions are not enough...
We carry no support on Jansen for the reason that he sees nothing wrong in his remarks despite the emotional damage they caused to the victims and controversy within the country. We carry no support for he continues to show no respect for youth and student structures recognized by the institution but continues to engage with everyone outside the institution and say it is "consultation". We believe that he can only earn our support when he can show a change of heart from how his predecessor treated the students. He can only earn our support when he can prioritise transformation agenda of the institution and not yearn for popularity on matters of controversy.
We have raised key issues of priority that includes the student transportation to and from the campus especially in the evening. The time for English lectures to be changed from evening to day lectures to cater for black and non-Afrikaans speaking student. Infrastructure development at Qwaqwa campus must also be fast-tracked. Integration must also be treated as a matter of urgency and the renaming of Riets to be done with full involvement of the students with the name that signifies the demographics of the institution. Because we believe that racism in the institution has been institutionalized and inherent, to root it out you cannot take a short cut and hide behind forgiveness as emotional back-up.
We are surprised that all of a sudden we must now be played of a confused and tainted consultation process and we are certain that the results of this will backfire in the long run. We are no soothsayers to predict that a wrong start shall lead to correctness but we believe what is wrong must corrected and so far the Professor has not shown any intention to admit to his err. The Riets four have also not shown any remorse for what they did and therefore you cannot forgive those who are not asking for forgiveness. As YCL Free state we are not going to be deceived by any form of consultation done merely as a formality.
Therefore we will continue to mobilise all people who hate racism to come together as we challenge this narrow approach of the UFS.