‘The biggest casualty of our 28 years of democracy is the youth’ Herman Mashaba
Herman Mashaba said Youth Day is not the day to celebrate but to mourn the failures of the democratic state.
ActionSA President, Herman Mashaba and senior party delegates lead a youth day commemorative prayer at the Hector Pieterson Memorial on Thursday morning.
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Mashaba who addressed party members at the wreath lying ceremony said the It’s not a day to celebrate but to mourn the failures of the democratic state.
“The apartheid system failed all of us South Africans, but the biggest casualty of our 28 years of democracy is the youth.
“They ensured that our kids don’t get proper education, they don’t get employment opportunities. They are given drugs so that they lose hope.
“There is nothing to celebrate,” he told his supporters.
The former Mayer of Joburg added that the memory of 1976 remained a sore memory adding that he was saddened at the turn out of SA today.
“In 1994 I went to vote for Nelson Mandela and I thought my vote was going to unleash the potential of our people but today I am devastated to be talking to you 28 years into our democratic dispensation that we have been failed,” he said.
Mashaba further used the address to lambasted the current government citing that it’s failures were the reason the country was In shambles.
“Our boarders are open for international criminals to come and destroy our communities , give us drugs, bring counterfeits and expired goods all manner of evil.
“I believe the only way we can rebuild this nation, we really need to bring God back.”
He added that young people in the country were the the voice for change, and appealed to them take to the polls in the upcoming elections in 2024 and added that it was the responsibility of everyone to ensure that the country did not fail.
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“We still have a chance to remove the evil and bring in a new dispensation in our country.
“Who would have imagined that in 1994 we would have a peaceful transition, it was unimaginable.
“Let us ensure that queues that we experienced in 1994, we see them in 2024.
“And we vote these people out and put new multiparty government that can serve the people of this country and not our stomachs.
“South Africa can not be another failed African state,” concluded Mashaba.
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Herman Mashaba said Youth Day is not the day to celebrate but to mourn the failures of the democratic state.
