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=**YCL CALLS ON ALL YOUTH TO PARTICIPATE IN ELECTIONS**= The Young Communist League is worried by a SAPA report that 70% of 'youth' are 'ambivalent of voting. This report is based on a research made by the Research Surveys, and was done through face-to-face interaction with youth from five major cities including Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. We see this as posing a challenge to youth-political organizations to go all out there and improve on the predicted 41% of the votes. Although such surveys are not 100% correct, they however poses a challenge to the youth of the country to take charge and ensure that they determine who leads. As the YCL, we also see this as a call to action. Given the situation that young people are facing, ranging from unemployment, poverty, access to education, basic health care and HIV/AIDS, the youth may continuously loose faith in the political and governance systems of our country and end up totally staying away. It is the responsibility of all of us to ensure that we make young people realize the significance of participating in elections as a means to exercise our rights. As the YCL, we will be kicking off with our Elections Campaign in support of the ANC with February being declared the Red Youth Month. We will use this to ensure that all young people come out and vote, to give credence and claim our right to this democratic institutions.
 * 16 January 2006**
 * Issued by the YCL National Office

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