The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) has reiterated its call for a 50% representation of the youth in the ANC caucus in the national assembly ahead of the 2024 National Elections. The League’s president Collen Malatji says this is the beginning of their fight for the visibility of young people in all structures of their mother body the ANC.
The league held its Provincial Manifesto Demands Rally at the Bhisho stadium in the Eastern Cape. The Youth League president says part of their demands include interventions to develop skills among young people and the creation of employment opportunities. He says the League is applying pressure on government to ensure that this happens.
“The immediate intervention is a skills development programme that they must place all young people on, that is the most important thing. We must reindustrialize as an urgent matter because all these industries have collapsed because we have been moving all our raw materials to other nations to develop their secondary tertiary sectors neglecting our own. We have demanded not less than 50% representation of youth to be in parliament, a demand that we are ready to fight for and it’s a demand we are ready to achieve,” says Malatji.
Source: eNCA
