Johannesburg - ANC Youth League President Collen Maine says they welcome the country's recent downgrade to junk status.
Earlier this week, S&P downgraded SA to junk status. On Friday, Fitch Ratings followed suit.
Maine said President Jacob Zuma was the only president who, through his Cabinet reshuffle, had started the process toward radical economic transformation in this lifetime.
The youth league president was one of the leaders who addressed supporters outside the ANC's Luthuli House headquarters in the city centre on Friday.
Thousands gathered to defend their "political home".
This was in response to an anti-Zuma march held by the Democratic Alliance on the same day.