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YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE OF SOUTH AFRICA PRESS STATEMENT, 16 January 2006
=WE DESERVE BETTER PUBLIC SERVICE:= =YCL’S CALL TO PUBLIC SERVANTS!=

The Young Communist League (YCL) is concerned about the growing tendency amongst public servants failures to discharge their responsibilities. The recent skirmish in the long awaited burial of the Ndlebe family’s child is a sad one and miscarriage of public service delivery.

These failures are a manifestation of the untransformed public service that we inherited 13 years ago from the Apartheid regime and the Capitalist dispensation we find ourselves in, which denies the working class and the poor of our country quality provision of public service delivery.

As the YCL we call on government to intervene in the case of the Ndlebe family and root out all those lazy bunch of public servants who are failing to discharge their responsibilities. Our people and the working class in general cannot be held into hostage by those who do not live or work under the injunction of Batho Pele. Our people deserve better public service to quench the opportunities and promises made by the ANC government in three consecutive elections of providing a better life for all, and these promises were also quantified by the shed of Chris Hani’s blood who had said; socialism is about simple things…jobs, health, housing, water and life of dignity for everyone.

As the Young Communist League (YCL) inspired by these wise words of the late General Secretary of the SACP, we want one simple thing for the Ndlebe family is for them to be accorded the opportunity to bury their loved one and allow them to close this pain chapter in their life. We also call on the Department of Health and the National Health Laboratory Services to act in the best interest of the Ndlebe family by finding the remains of the deceased child.

We further as the Young Communist League we share the grief and pain that has been inflicted to the Ndlebe family and we extend our sincere sympathies.

Issued by Buti Manamela National Secretary Young Communist League


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