ANCYL POLITICAL

COMMISSION
REPORT
16 FEBRUARY 2019

Issued by the ANCYL BEC

Sabelo Mtolo, Chairperson
Axola Gidimisana, Secretary
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CONTENTS
OVERVIEW ........................................................................................................................................................... 2
The National Democratic Revolution........................................................................................................ 6
The Current period ........................................................................................................................................... 7
12 bread and butter demands ..................................................................................................................... 9
COMMISSION REPORTS AND RESOLUTIONS .....................................................................................10
On economic development ........................................................................................................................... 10
On Social Development ................................................................................................................................. 12
On Health and Education ............................................................................................................................. 13
Sports, Arts and Culture ............................................................................................................................... 15
Community Safety ........................................................................................................................................... 16
CAMPAIGNS AND SLOGANS........................................................................................................................18
Economic Development ................................................................................................................................ 18
Social Development ........................................................................................................................................ 18
Health and Education .................................................................................................................................... 18
Sports, Arts and Culture ............................................................................................................................... 18
Community Safety ........................................................................................................................................... 18
DECLARATION ..................................................................................................................................................19

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OVERVIEW

The ANCYL Ward 32 (Greater Johannesburg Region) hosted an inaugural political

commission on the 16th of February 2019. The commission was convened by the BEC to
discuss issues related to elections and to craft a strategy around specific socio-economic
issues.

The commission was attended by 60 guests and received messages of support from
fraternal alliance partners including SANCO.

The commission received an elaborate political input from the chairperson detailing the
course of our revolution over the past 25 years and the successes made in government.
In his political report, the chairperson made critical observations about the successes of
the ANC in government. Noting that: the ANC over the past period has managed to
entrench democracy through the adoption of a world-renowned constitution with the
most progressive human right laws that promote equality, fairness and redress.

Also, during this period, the ANC government has established a functional multiparty
political system thus giving citizens a chance to choose their government every five years.
Along with this, we have been able to run a three spheres government i.e. local, provincial
and national government.

The three arms of the state are also fully functional, the judicial, the executive and the
legislature

Our constitution makes various provisions that promote the general wellbeing of each
citizen in our country. In cases of government incapacity to live up to its promises and
the chapter 9 institutions have displayed overwhelming excellence and independence in
exercising their responsibility and ensuring the democratic dividend accrues to all
through acting as a watch dog on behalf of all citizens. The political input also summarised
the successes of our revolution as follows:

Economy: Since 1994, we have seen sustained growth, tripling the size of the economy
and improving the GDP per capita. Sustained growth has been crucial for enabling
redistribution of public resources to meet the basic social needs of our people.
Employment also picked up since 1994 compared with the pre-1994 period. Today seven

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million more people are working, making a total of over 16 million. However,
employment growth has slowed since 2013 due to a combination of global and domestic
factors. We face a more significant challenge to meet the target of 24 million employed by
2030.

On electricity: 84% of South African households now have electricity compared to only
36% in 1994

On health: life expectancy has increased to 64 years in 2018 compared to 53 years in

2005. Also, 4.5 million SAs living with HIV are now on the ARV programme compared to
2.4 million in 2004 while also improving mother to child transmission levels

Infrastructure: We have invested more than R2 trillion in infrastructure projects over

the past 10 years to build more schools, clinics, roads and the freight logistics network as
a prerequisite for building an inclusive economy which has high levels of growth

Education: 90% of public schools have become no-fee paying schools, and learners are
benefiting from school feeding schemes and subsidized public transport. This has
contributed to the increase in school attendance from 51% in 1994 to 99% today. The
number of learners who passed matric increased from 50% before 1994 to around 78%
today, with a major shift in the balance of high performers to schools with learners from
poor backgrounds. Our support for university and TVET college students from poor and
working-class backgrounds through the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS)
has hugely increased from R70 million in 1994 to nearly R15 billion in 2018.

Social Security: The number of individuals on social grants increased from 3 million in
1994 to 17,5 million in 2017, benefiting children, the elderly, people with disability and
veterans.

Housing: Since 1994, over 4,7 million free houses have been built benefiting over 14
million people. This has meant a massive extension of home ownership, growing the
productive assets of our people. In the recent period, we have been hard at work to ensure
that more and more South Africans live closer to economic opportunities and that we
eventually overcome the race-based spatial separation of our people inherited from
apartheid

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On Water and Sanitation: In 1994, only 6 out of 10 South Africans had access to clean
drinking water. Today, that figure has increased to nearly 9 out of 10 South Africans. The
improved access to water services has reduced the time spent, mostly by women and
girls, on gathering water and has given more time for productive activities, adult
education, empowerment activities and leisure.

With all the successes recorded to date, there are still structural challenges we haven’t
been able to resolve adequately which still promotes the divide between the poor and the
rich. In some instances, we have not delivered to the expectations of our people due to
objective and subjective factors. At an objective level, subdued economic growth in the
past almost 15 years since the global finance crisis has hampered out efforts to create
jobs and to end poverty. Our economy has been entangled in a prolonged period of
economic growth with low tax collections at the back of a widening debt line thus making
the government unable to provide short term stimulus to the economy.

Accordingly, while our efforts to gradually bridge the income gap between people of
different race groups through strategic policy choice such as the RDP and other macro-
economic choices such as GEAR have largely been undermined by objective challenges
affecting most countries throughout the world.

Furthermore, our efforts to transform the economy has been fundamentally been poor
due to resistance efforts from critical social partners. Also, poor policy choices to radically
alter the structure of our economy to be more pass based through breaking monopolies,
democratising ownership of capital and the creation of new markets for small-medium
enterprises have undermined the course of transformation all together.

South Africa remains the most unequal society in the world. The recent report by the
world bank reveals that 70% of the country’s wealth is owned by 1% of the economically
active population. While the bottom 60% only controls about 7% of economic and
industrial assets.

The report further reveals that more than 55.5% of our people live below the poverty
line, that is, about 31 million South Africans survive on less that R1000 income per month.
This number is made up of 64.2% being black and only 1% being white the balance is
split between Indians and coloureds.

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Furthermore, the unemployment is on the rise currently stubbornly sitting at 27.7%

while youth unemployment is just few percentages shy of the 40% mark.

These glaringly worrying statistics reveal an objective reality that the legacy of apartheid
still victimises mostly previously disadvantaged groups while the white population has
consolidated more economic victories in the period under review.

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THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION

The commission also expressed its commitment of taking responsibility for the NDR as a
strategic lodestar for the attainment of total liberation for the oppressed black majority.
In this regard, the commission made observations that:

The reconstruction of the South African Social, Economic and political order remains the
apex priority of the National Democratic Revolution (NDR). The fundamental
responsibility of the ANC in government is to gradually resolve the three interrelated,
path dependent and mutually reinforcing contradiction of class, race and gender as the
primary sources of social conflict.

The fundamental structural challenge facing the National Democratic Revolution (NDR)
is our capitalist economy. The key constraint is that of seeking to drive radical socio-
economic transformation on a terrain of a highly monopolised, semi-colonial capitalist
trajectory. It is a semi-colonial economic trajectory with stubborn structural features of
unemployment, inequality and poverty.

In this regard, the NDR cannot move forward unless it first resolves the structural
challenges inherent in our economy. These are, the dismantling of all monopolies, the
transformation of the finance complex and driving a radical land and agrarian reform
programme, this is the theory adopted in Mangaung regarding the second more radical
phase prioritizing economic transformation, job creation and building a progressive and
capable developmental state.

From the 2012 Mangaung conference, our plans to roll out the second phase of the NDR
were undermined sharply by what COSATU observed in 2010. Upward class mobility,
elite maneuverers, the GUPTA shadow parallel state and the weakening of democratic
institutions has undermined our ability to prioritise economic transformation.

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THE CURRENT PERIOD

In 2017, the ANC made critical observations about the trajectory our movement was
arrested in for the past 10 years. While great and remarkable progress was made in
government, but organisationally the ANC in/was in a state of paralysis riddled by
factional battles and high levels of corruption implicating senior officials.

The 2016 local government result became a glaring revelation pointing to the fact that
the ANC had lost confidence of the bigger electorate. The loss of key metros during this
period was yet another marquee dent in our course to use government and state power
to transform society.

The losses of the three metros amount to a combined fiscal budget of over R100bn to the
hands of the opposition per year. This implies that the NDR in these metros was robbed
of serious capacity to change the lives of our people for the better through rendering basic
services for the benefit of the poor.

Further revelations of corruption in government, allegations of state capture and other

grandscale looting of public funds made a case for renewal and such a task was/is
supposed to be an immediate priority for the ANC.

Post the Nasrec period, the election result of that conference gave us a lifeline to drive a
critical renewal and repositioning programme to win back the confidence of the masses,
at Nasrec, just as it was the case at the NGC in 2015, we set out basic tasks to be
undertaken in line with our quest of redirecting the course of the NDR

These tasks include amongst others the review of our organisational design and electoral
processes. Further, conference resolved on accelerating:

- Value & Moral Regeneration

- Organisational Renewal
o Mass mobilisation
o Ideological training and political education
o Membership & Branches
o Relation with local Government
o Alliance, Youth, Women
- Dealing with negative practices

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o Role & powers of the integrity committee

o Corruption
o Factionalism (Leadership candidates & general uprooting of slates)
o Ill-discipline

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12 BREAD AND BUTTER DEMANDS

prioritising land redistribution and exploring expropriation without compensation as
one of the policy choices available for government must be fast tracked

Our immediate and the most important tasks must be to prioritize getting the economy
back on track to grow at levels above 5% for the next 12 years to 2020 through attracting
domestic and foreign investment to reindustrialise our economy for job creation and
taking radical steps towards the attainment of economic freedom in our lifetime.

As resolved in the 2011 Gallagher conference of the ANCYL on an urgent need to transfer
ownership of economic resources from a white minority the black majority as a symbolic
necessity and a prerequisite for total liberation. Our bread and butter demands are:

1. Urgent action on implementing free education as a government policy

2. Nationalisation of mines and other strategic sectors of the economy
3. Land expropriation without compensation
4. Establishment of a youth SME bank
5. A clear path on women inclusivity in all economic policies
6. Immediate establishment of State Owned Bank
7. 40% set aside of government procurement spend must be reserved for youth
SMEs and 20% of that must benefit the township youth
8. Government to create a workable and clear cooperative sector strategy as a critical
lever for economic transformation
9. A government led food security programme through supporting household
vegetable and livestock farming
10. A clear programme to recapitalise our SOEs and revive their capacity to be self
sufficient
11. Business operating in local economies must be compelled by low to have a
workforce made of 70% local youth and their social sustainability spend must be
used to develop local business
12. Data/Internet connection free zones to improve access to information as a
necessary instrument for economic growth in this industrial period

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COMMISSION REPORTS AND RESOLUTIONS

The political commission received discussion documents on critical aspects of our

elections programme.

On economic development
NOTING RESOLVE
Small formal and informal businesses

The commission notes the structural
challenges confronting youth businesses in
our ward.
The structural challenges include access to
all forms of capital and development of new
markets, the penetration of matured
markets and the driving of an inclusive
economy
On The commission resolves on the urgent
establishment of an ANCYL led business
incubation programme that will hub all
skills needed by young entrepreneurs.
This business hub must include all social
players including established monopoly
businesses, universities and other bodies of
social influence

Further noting, The incubation programme must be

prioritized as a necessary condition for
Many youth businesses in our ward do not giving practical meaning to democratic
reach full growth capacity due to a variety gains for our youth across our ward.
of issues, these issues include skills and
proper business practices.
Unemployment
As part of ending unemployment. The
ANCYL, working together with progressive
There’s high level of youth unemployment
organisations, must undertake urgent steps
rate in our ward in particularly the
to engage all businesses operating in this
Klipfontein View VD. This VD is situated
one to offer:
strategically next to key industrial
development zones as well as big

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institutions of higher learning. Also, the
ward is next to other influential bodies in
the zone such as professional soccer teams.
Further noting,
There are massive economic and
infrastructural developments currently
taking place in our ward. These include
massive distribution centres, road networks
and production plants.
Capacitating local schools to offer skills
development programmes
Our ward, in totality has 7 schools that must
be used as centres for active skills
development after classes or even during
weekends.
These schools must be opened to all the
community as centres of learning for all.
Access to land ascertain the real owners of vacant spaces
Our ward is a community of two worlds, the
poorly developed middle class living in 5
VDs and a visible poor community of
Klipfontein.
1. Skills development and learnership
programmes for the youth
2. Abolish usage of labour brokers to
allow walk in applications from our
ward
3. Support local economic development
through contracting local business to
render non-core and non-specialised
services in cases where key
competencies are in question
Actively engage relevant bodies and
authorities to:
1. Agree to opening schools during the
evening and on weekends to be used
a learning centres for the youth
2. Galvanise support from local TVETS
and other institutions to develop a
relevant curriculum and offer their
expertise on a pro-bono basis
3. Engage business to offer internship
and learnership programmes
Urgently do a thorough land audit to
In cases where a space is privately owned
but not utilised, an agreement must be
explored with the owners to enter into a
lease agreement for other people with
business interests to utilise the space
effectively
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The issue of access to land for economic

purposes remains a serious hinderance to
fully optimising opportunities.
While this is an interim solution, efforts
must be undertaken to achieve full
ownership of vacant land spaces in our
ward. These spaces must be owned
communally and be utilised by progressive
cooperatives with shared interests.

On Social Development

NOTING RESOLVE
Child Headed Households (CHH) In partnership with the ANCWL, we need to
urgently roll out a support programme
Death and other related tendencies have where we will work with Social workers and
robbed majorities of children their families other social security entities to craft a
at a very young age. HIV related deaths and sustainable plan which will ensure affected
the overall stigma around the scourge families are lifted out of poverty.
continues to rob families of bread winners. In
this regard, the have identified just over 40 We will also lead the popularisation of the
CHHs who are destitute at the moment. City’s Indigent List Programme (ILP) as an
alternative measure within which affected
families can access basic necessities from
the Metro
Poor Access to Home Affairs offerings We need to embark on a concerted
programme together with the Dept of Social
Our people remain unable to resolve their Development and Home Affairs to bring
identification challenges. Many cases of mobile services on a monthly rolling period
learners unable to write matric due to no ID to ensure most people are assisted.
documents have been identified as a serious
challenge leading to drop outs. Also, in cases where finances are a problem,
the ANCYL working together with the ANC

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Also, there are older citizens who can’t must develop fundraising strategies for the
access social security initiatives due to lost benefit of the victims
and unrecoverable ID documents
On citizens living with disability As part of the approved road budget, we
need to ensure that the plans and proposed
Due to significant infrastructure challenges upgrades include all the features that can
in our ward, majority of citizens living with accommodate people living with conditions
disability can’t move efficiently. Most of them of disability.
are in wheel chairs and remained house
trapped due to poor tarred roads and high Also, we need to actively identify all affective
traffic volumes. individuals and do a proper needs analysis

On Health and Education

NOTING RESOLVE
Basic Healthcare Actively engage all social partners to take
There is a serious health infrastructure keen interest and direct this development to
challenge confronting our ward. Poor access be built to the specifications of our ward
to basic health services continues to be a
challenge affecting majority of our citizens Accordingly, mobile services must also be
mainly the Klipfontein VD made available with door-to-door nurses
servicing the elderly and the disabled
We have been made aware of an approved
budget of R37 million with land having
already been donated
HIV/Aids and Drug Abuse A radical and a far-reaching awareness
campaign aimed at promoting responsible
High levels of HIV and drug abuse are quite sexual behaviours and the outright
prevalent amongst the youth. Teenage combating of dangerous consumption of
pregnancy is also worryingly high leading to drugs and alcohol
school drop outs before matric.

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Mental Illness Undertake a targeted process of creating

mental illness awareness and engage
Our community is made up of special needs critical bodies to enable special needs
citizens who have mental related illnesses. children to access basic education

Most people do not know the causes and the

impact of such illnesses. There appears to be
a general.
On Education Engage government to fast track the
Overall, no adequate schooling
infrastructure has been built in the past
period. In general, this challenge is mainly
prevalent in Klipfontein VD where there is
only one primary school and no high school
Also, early childhood development (ECD)
programmes are not given proper attention.
There are more than 23 creches which most
of them aren’t property registered thus
depriving children an opportunity to
develop basic skills from a young age
Further noting,
No coherent vocational training
opportunities are available for young people. Also, a specialised programme for IT must
There are no facilities to for trade and skills
development.
building of a high school in Klipfontein
which will house other types of skills
development useful for trade and business
management.
Conduct a thorough assessment of all the
creches operating in Klipfontein with an
intention of partnering with them to
improve learning conditions of children.
Also, build internal capacity to drive a
uniform ECD programme.
The YL must urgently partner with skilled
persons in the branch to offer grade 11 and
matriculants free revision class particularly
in Maths, Physical Sciences and Accounting.
be created to take advantage of the
advances made in the digital space and the
rise of the 4IR.

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Sports, Arts and Culture

NOTING RESOLVE
Actively encourage women participation
and launching a fight against systematic
Women in sport exclusions. In this regard a women soccer
General neglect of sporting codes team must be established in partnership
predominantly played by women. In this with other social players.
regard, there are no facilities and other
necessities to support women in sport Also, the promotion of netball, volley ball
and indigenous games must be taken as an
apex priority.
Arts and Culture
The promotion of arts and culture must
also form part of the bigger programme for
Further noting, the overwhelming neglect of
the ANCYL in our ward. Also noting, the
other forms of art and the general decline in
urgent need to create space for other forms
concerts and other talent show casing
of art such as visual arts and other talents.
opportunities.
Infrastructure Urgently lobby for the creation of a multi
Further noting, adequately equipped sports centre facility which will include
facilities are not easily accessible major sport codes
Nutrition

Due to poverty and other constraints, most Identify top tier talent across all codes and
athletes cannot reach full potential due to source nutrition sponsorships for them
poor diets and access to good food.

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Community Safety

NOTING RESOLVE
Crime
The stats of crime in ward 32 are on the rise.
Heightening our call for a satellite police
Most of crimes committed are drug related.
station and promote visible policing
These include violent break-ins, hijacks and
armed robberies.
Murders
Most murders in our ward are related to
drug and substance abuse. Most of them are Actively launch a safety campaign around
committed using unlicensed firearms all taverns and bottle stores. Create
awareness all round and make owners take
A number of these case are committed a safety pledge
around and close to where there are taverns
and bottle stores
Deliberate parent symposium to create
awareness
Rape

Actively campaign for early reporting of

Increasingly, more women are becoming
rape cases while offering safe spaces for all
victims of rape with the number worryingly
victims
high amongst victims less than 18 years pf
age.
Isolate rape apologists

Further noting, it has been established

Use mass and community mobilisation to
universally that rape perpetrators are
exert pressure on police and victims to
largely people who have had close
arrest and refuse dropping cases due to
relationship with their victims.
pressures from society mainly their
parents
Engage in a process of promoting and
Community Policing
funding community policing forums

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No adequate and well concerted community supported by law enforcement agencies

policing engagements. All are in fractions are such as SAPS and registered security
remain largely fragmented. companies.

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CAMPAIGNS AND SLOGANS

These are campaigns we should prioritise in response to recommendations made by all

commissions.

Economic Development
 Qondisa ishishini lakho
 Fight unemployment
 Youth for skills, skills for youth
 Reclaiming our spaza shops

Social Development
 Molo Makhelwane
 One home, one garden
 Smart ID and Birth certificates campaigns
 Children should be at school, not leading families

Health and Education

 War on drugs
 No condom, no round
 One VD, one clinic
 One VD, one primary – one high school
 Our economy, our skills, our future

Sports, Arts and Culture

 One VD, One multipurpose facility
 No Women participation, no sponsorship

Community Safety
 Wanya Tsotsi
 Gun free zones
 War on rape and domestic abuse
 In praise of women’s rights

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DECLARATION

We, the ANCYL of Ward 32, gathered in this commission took this day to discuss our
future and strategies of delivering a majority vote for the ANC.

Here, we took time to elaborate on all issues affecting us as young people of ward 32 and
we have made a clarion call that:

 We are the centre of knowledge for the ANC in this ward and accordingly our
efforts must be directed at strengthening the ANC and combating all elements that
seeks to weaken the YL and the people’s movement.
 All of us gathered here agree that far reaching efforts must be adopted to surgically
remove all elements that seek to divide the ANCYL.
 We further make a call that the fighting capacity of the YL remains its most potent
characteristic and it must be protected and guided adequately.

This commission further declares 2019 as a year of young people taking their rightful
place in the economy and other spaces of social influences. The YL will champion the
interests of all young people and take practical steps to reviving the mass-based character
of the YL in our ward and across the region.

The ANCYL further commits to building an intellectual base capable of producing

innovating methods of leading the struggle in period of industrial expansion supported
by rapid technological developments.

Economic Freedom remains a priority that we must champion with no intention of

deriving material benefit. We remain committed to all the resolutions taken at Gallagher
with nationalisation of mines and the expropriation of land without compensation

We further declare that the 12 bread and butter demand as adopted at the commission
are an apex priority and we must popularise them through active grassroot campaigning.

Lastly, we make no apologies for our commitment to political education and cadre
development as a necessary priority that all members must be engaged in. the Anton
Lembede political school must continue to flourish and exist independently of the BEC.

End

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