Johannesburg -
The ANC Youth League is agitating for South Africa to implement discredited Zimbabwean policies in order to boost the ailing economy.
It lashed out at ANC deployees who had failed to implement the liberation movement’s mandate in the government. Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande was singled out.
On Tuesday, ANCYL secretary-general Njabulo Nzuza called on young people to prepare for a third revolution that would see black people reclaiming their land entrenched in the hands of “white minority oppressors”.
He was briefing the media in Joburg on the league’s national executive committee meeting held last week.
In implementing the revolution, Nzuza said, they would ensure the ANC’s new leadership, due to be elected next year, had young people who would breathe new ideas into the party.
Speaking to The Star later, ANCYL spokesman Mlondi Mkhize said the revolution would be carried out with the government’s help. The other aspect was to establish a state-owned bank whose revenue would assist in implementing free education and healthcare, among others.
Mlondi said the league wanted a similar law to Zimbabwe’s discredited indigenisation law, which was implemented to address inequality. The law requires all foreign-owned companies to give up 51 percent of their ownership to indigenous Zimbabweans.
The Star