Statement of the African National Congress Youth League in Gauteng on DIRCO utterances on Russia-Ukraine tensions
24 February 2022
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in Gauteng is baffled by the sudden utterances of pensioners who have all but abandoned their responsibility of governing the Republic of South Africa. This is in light of a series of statements attributed to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) regarding the ongoing Russia-Ukraine tensions and the apparent "intervention" of South Africa.
Minister Naledi Pandor, the chief-pensioner in pursuit of appeasing the West and Africa's former coloniser has been bending over backwards to reiterate western propaganda and paint a pro-USA narrative through statements issued by DIRCO.
Instead of dealing with the mammoth task of dismantling apartheid systems and transforming our country for the benefit of the African majority, the old guard in South Africa is now plunged headfirst into a political situation which is the doing of the West.
Instead of our government confronting the massive unemployment crisis facing the young people of this country, the government is engaged in a bizarre and fruitless PR exercise to carry favour and with no doubt additional loans and donations from the west, a shadow of their former revolutionary character which was imparted to them by the mighty African National Congress.
These demented pensioners have clearly run out of ideas, they are failing to grapple and deal decisively with the triple oppression faced by the masses of our people, in the contrary, they opt to write irrelevant statements about everything but the plight of South Africans.
When King Mswati slaughtered innocent people right at our doorstep the myriad of statements were nowhere to be found.
DIRCO suddenly has a hunger to intervene in Kyiv whilst only weeks ago it hosted the Apartheid state of Israel, which has for more than half a century been committing acts of genocide against the indigenous Palestinian population in the occupied Palestine.
The posturing on the part of the elders in government was nowhere to be seen when the USA proudly killed Gaddafi in Libya, when the children of Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan cried to the world as the USA slaughtered them.
The South Africa government in its pursuit to impress the imperialist has seemingly forgotten of its governing and moral responsibility to the people of South Africa and its historic allies that helped them through the gruesome apartheid regime.
The ANC-led government of South Africa must always stand on the side of Russian people. Russia played an integral role in what our country has become. The inclusion of South Africa in BRIGS ought to be the guiding path towards our country fully supporting Russia.
The old guard should do us a favour and retire immediately, before any of their remaining revolutionary morality is a distant memory.
It seems like they have selective amnesia, they have forgotten the training from the KGB which contributed significantly to the liberation of the people of South Africa.
The ANCYL in Gauteng calls on the South African government to urgently deal with the economic stagnancy the country has been facing in the past decade.
Stanley "AK47" Letsoalo Provincial coordinator
Ntsako Mogobe Provincial convener
Issued by the ANCYL Gauteng, 24 February 2022
