ANC YOUTH LEAGUE CALLS FOR AN IMMEDIATE RETRACTION OF MKTHONTO WE SIZWE MILITARY VETERANS' ASSOCIATION STATEMENT THREATENING THE SHOOTING OF ANC YL PRESIDENT JULIUS MALEMA.
14 March 2012
The ANC Youth League calls for an immediate retraction of the KwaZulu Natal Mkhonto We Sizwe Military Veterans' Association statement published in Umafrika Newspaper, which said that ANC Youth League President should be been shot and killed by the ANC if the ANC was a real ANC. In a press conference addressed by the KZN MKMVA, the leadership of the MKMVA said that the ANC Youth League President would have been shot by the ANC firing squad.
The ANC YL demands an immediate apology from the MKMVA because their statements are not only a misrepresentation of reality and history, but incitement of violence against the leadership of the ANC Youth League. We call for an immediate retraction because it is not for the first time that the leadership of the MKMVA in KwaZulu Natal to threaten violence and desth on members of the ANC Youth League.
We also call for ANC to take immediate action on the people who incite violence in the ANC, because such will undermine the stability and peace, which the National Liberation Movement fought so hard to establish in South Africa. The ANC YL has brought this matter to the attention to the attention of the leadership of the ANC in KwaZulu Natal and National Leadership, with the hope that they will address these threats with immediate effect because the utterances of the MKMVA in KwaZulu Natal are conclusively out of order.
The ANC Youth League will approach relevant authorities, particularly the Human Rights Commission and the Equality Court if the KZN MKMVA refuses to apologise within 7 days of the release of this statement. No one should ever threaten violence to resolve political differences because doing so will degenerate South Africa's stability.
Statement issued by Sindiso Magaqa, ANC YL Secretary General, March 14 2012
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