THE ANC YOUTH LEAGUE ECONOMIC FREEDOM LECTURE AT WITS UNIVERSITY WENT AHEAD SUCCESFULLY 

14 October 2011

The ANC Youth League Economic Freedom Lecture at Wits University went ahead and was addressed by ANC Youth League President Julius Malema. Hundreds of students gathered at Wits University's West Campus for the Economic Freedom Lecture, and as a responsible, responsive and revolutionary youth wing of the ANC, the ANC Youth League leadership decided to go ahead with the economic freedom lecture at Wits University.

The fears of the Wits University Management that the huge numbers of students who were invited could not be controlled were dismissed by the fact that students in their own right were well behaved and attentively listened to the lecture. As a matter of principle, the ANC Youth League will not agree with any suppression of free political mobilisation and association. The ANC YL has noticed that certain institutions of higher learning are trying by all means to suppress free political movement and mobilisation and always threaten student activists with expulsions and suspensions whenever they mobilise.

The ANC Youth League will soon write to Wits University management to express our displeasure on their attempts to disrupt a free political gathering simply because they are in control of the bureaucracy. We will also caution the Wits management that South Africa is a democratic country and any attempt to suppress political mobilisation and association will be met with massive resistance.

Statement issued by the ANC Youth League, October 14 2011

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