Your opinion about Buti Manamela Statement? Buti Manamela Adv. Thuli Madonsela is not god” Buti Manamela YCLSA National Secretary Buti Manamela said earlier today that Adv Thuli Madonsela is not god and that her investigations and findings are not the Ten Commandments. Manamela was speaking to more than 4000 young people in Madibeng outside Rustenburg at an Election Rally organized jointly with the NUM Youth Forum and the Progressive Youth Alliance. Manamela said it was important that as much as Chapter 9 institutions are accorded powers by the constitution, they were required to do this work without fear or favour. “Adv. Madonsela has in the past committed serious legal mistakes in relations to procedure and on the substantive issues of her investigations. This was clear in her investigations of the IEC Chairperson Pansty Tlhakula, and some of her findings regarding the SABC erroneously finding people guilty who were never in the employ of the broadcaster at the time she was investigating” Manamela said “The same applies to her investigations of Nkhandla. This was a trial through the media, and so are many of her investigations. She is driven by the political agenda of the media and of the DA” said Manamela. “No personal attacks on PP” “I appeal to you comrades, lets not attack her personality, how she walks or how she speaks or the colour of her lip-stick. We must engage her on the basis of her investigations, findings and the provisions in the constitution and the Public Protector’s Act. The public protector’s office was established by the ANC government, it must be this government that protects that institution.” He further said that there is nothing new in her recent report, which she had in anyway leaked last year to the media. “President Zuma did not ask for security upgrades and renovations. He did not appoint contractors to do the upgrades. He did not unduly benefit form the entire Nkandla process and therefore cannot take responsibility of the mess that was created by administrators” “Those who sky-rocketed the prices of the security renovations in Nkandla from R27million to R237 million should be brought to book and pay back the tax-payers money.” Don’t Vote the anti-Black, Women and Workers Democratic Alliance Manamela urged the gathered youth not to vote for the Democratic Alliance as it was anti-Black, anti-Women and anti-Workers. “Look at their list to parliament. They have 70% of their candidates being white, and only 1/3 of those being women. None of those have a worker or working class background and yet they are asking black people, women and workers to vote for them” This does not only speak to their representatives, it also speaks to their policies. The DA opposed the wage demands of farmworkers in the wine industry, calling this a ploy by the ANC to bring the province into ungovernability. They opposed Employment Equity policies. They are opposed to Black Economic Empowerment. They call black people refugees and migrants because they believe Cape Town belongs to whites only. This is the party of apartheid that no democracy loving young person should vote for it” Manamela said. He further said that the ANC has a proven track record for the last twenty years in creating access to education, basic health care, housing, roads, water, electricity, social grants, saving 1 million jobs lost due to the economic recession and have an actual plan to govern South Africa. He called on all young people to continue volunteering for the ANC Elections Campaign and not to be duped by newcomers. “Bantu Holomisa has left the ANC and now he is alone in his UDM, representing his jacket. Terror Lekota duped millions of people to follow him into COPE, and today many are coming back to the ANC as it shows that a house built of anger cannot be sustained. “Julius Malema was expelled from the ANC because he was rude, disrespectful, ill-disciplined and represented everything that the ANCYL was not. He has now formed a stokvel saying our people should trust him. We trusted you once and got you elected in 2008 in Mangaung and you used that position to enrich yourself. You buy a house for R3million, bring it down, build another one for R16 million and yet you say we should trust you. Manamela further said that they “made a mistake once, and shall never repeat that mistake by giving you a vote in the elections”. He said that EFF will crumble like the job he [Malema] did when building a house for the Hlongwanes in Nkandla. “That one-man show being EFF shall follow the example of many other political parties that are based on a personality cult and personal interests. All that you know is to hurl insult at Jacob Zuma, and have absolutely no policies. If you are challenged on policies, you spit some illusionary vision that only a person in a stupor can produce” he said Issued by YCLSA Media
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:53:43 +0000
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