YCLSA on FNB's regime change agenda

The Young Communist League of South Africa (uFasimba) is utterly disgusted by the veiled attack on our democratic gains by the First National Bank (FNB) through a series of internet video ads supposedly done by "concerned South African children".

These videos are nothing but part of a campaign to derail the second phase of our transition towards the realisation of the vision of our national democratic revolution as eloquently captured in the Freedom Charter.

FNB's political campaign titled "You can help" is aimed in our view at garnering votes for the "Democratic Alliance". This constitutes an assault at our African National Congress (ANC) led government and the national democratic revolution, and is typified by the following utterance from one of the videos: "Stop voting for the same government in hopes for change - instead change your hopes to a government that has the same hopes as us".

We are fully convinced that those children said those things as the videos sound very scripted. FNB went for internet videos as they are fully aware that no TV station was going to air their drivel.

We call on the FNB, which has now openly exposed itself as one of the forces of opposition to complete political and socio-economic emancipation, to retract the videos and offer South Africa a compelling explanation for them. If the bank does not accede to our demand we will call on all democracy loving South Africans to boycott it.

By the way, the resources that FNB is using to advance its regime change agenda are mainly from the sweat of the working class and the poor, the majority of whom fully supports this government. Instead of transforming as part of the financial sector, the FNB wants to take our society to back to the old ugly days of apartheid and it is creating a swaartgevaar siege mentality.

At no stage shall we allow FNB or any bank or financial institution for that matter to run away with murder - absolute exploitation of our people including turning their resources against them and child labour, regardless of the mask applied on it.

Statement issued by Khaya Xaba, YCLSA National Spokesperson, January 21 2013

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