EFF in Mpumalanga calls on youth to rise up against unemployment and poverty
The sad and painful reality faced by young people today is that jobs and economic opportunities are only reserved for the selected few.
The EFF leader in Mpumalanga, Collen Sedibe, has ignited young people of this province to mobilise and rise up just like the youth of 1976 came together and defeated a tyranny that was apartheid.
Addressing a packed KwaMhlanga Community Hall on Thursday June 16, Sedibe challenged young people to rise up against poverty and unemployment.
“We meet here today, exactly 28 years after the country attained democracy in 1994, but yet our people are still landless. The land still belongs to the colonisers who stole it from our forefathers, our kings and chiefs. The youth of today are confronted by a new enemy, poverty and unemployment. Our young people are still without equal economic opportunities,” said Sedibe.
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“We still have a long way to go,” he continued, “but we are encouraged by the fact that South Africa is a youthful country and all we need to do is unite and rise up. The time has come for all young people of today to mobilise for one common goal. The time has come for young people to rise up once again, just like they did in 1976, and take back ownership of this country and the economy and our land.”
Sedibe further argued that because of unemployment and poverty, young people are easily lured and forced into the life of crime, prostitution, drugs and substance abuse.
“They do this because they don’t have any other choice to make ends meet. Under this current government, young people have been turned into spectators in the country’s economic activities, while the minority and the ANC vultures take away everything. All these challenges that are faced by our young people today, should not be present in the daily lives of South African youth, especially since it has been over 28 years since the country attained its democracy,” he pointed out.
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He said the lessons that can be drawn from the events of 1976 is that young people, when they are united and given the platform, can change the landscape.
“Young people can move mountains. They can change the political playing field and they can defeat tyranny. Indeed, no one and no weapon formed against young people shall prosper only as long as they are together and united for one common goal,” he stressed.
