MBOWENI MUST GO

…Youth alliance firm in its call for Mboweni to resign: ‘ANC must do what we were promised’

JOHANNESBURG - The Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA) has maintained its call for the removal of Finance Minister Tito Mboweni.

The PYA includes the South African Students Congress Organisation, the ANC Youth League, the Young Communist League and the Congress of South African Students.

On Tuesday, the PYA marched to the National Treasury offices in Tshwane to hand over a memorandum.

In the seven-page memorandum, the youth structure said the demands of young people were not being taken seriously by the government, especially with regard to problems like unemployment and historical school fees debt.

The PYA, which has been vocal for the past 48 hours, said the move was part of its campaign launch for youth month 2021 - and that the first objective was to give Mboweni a month to vacate his office.

The youth alliance is also demanding free quality education as well as de-commodified and de-colonised education.

However, despite some of the burning issues that have been raised by the PYA, speaking to Newzroom Afrika, it distanced itself from the notion that the move to march to National Treasury was the “ANC marching against the ANC.”

Instead, the group said it was tired of the ANC making empty promises without any results.

“We have an objective and understanding that we need to implement the National Democratic Revolution in making sure that we deal with gender inequality, in making sure we deal with racism, which is why we are saying to the listening government of the ANC, we are here, as young people of the ANC.

“We are here to confront the leaders of the ANC to say we are agreed that you are going to liberate us. We are saying the ANC must do what we were promised,” said the SA Students Congress Organisation president, Bamanye Matiwane.

– NEWS24.