PRESS RELEASE
18 June 2020
AL JAMA-AH BELIEVES THE YOUTH IN THE WESTERN IS BEING MARGINALISED
THE Western Cape youth continue to be marginalised and we cannot celebrate June 16th on the Cape Flats as the Cape must still get freedom. While the rest of the country got their freedom in 1994 the Cape Flats was handed over by the apartheid government not to the new ruling party, but to crime and gangsterism which is still the case today.
AL JAMA-AH leader and Member in Parliament, Hon Ganief Hendricks was delivering his speech to the National Assembly on the Youth Debate under the theme, “Youth Power -Growing South Africa Together In A Time of Covid-19” Hendricks expressed his disappointment that the speakers before him failed to mention of the power to equip the youth with. The ruling party’s best endeavours have failed and there is no hope for the personal safety of the residents on the Cape Flats after 26 years of democracy. The Western Cape youth are the most marginalised
He also reminded the House of the country’s non-compliance to Article 14 of the Childrens’ Charter of the African Union on their rights to proper sanitation. Many schools are closed today because of this non-compliance. In more than 5000 shanty towns the African child plays, eats and lives in sewerage.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has asked the youth of today to take the lead for a post-Covid economic recovery and AL JAMA-AH hopes he did not mean 45 -year olds in terms of youth in the African Union “handdowns.” Hendricks said soon after his maiden speech to Parliament, AL JAMA-AH asked South African youth to get ready for a cyber civilisation with roots in digital platforms. It is up to those involved in classroom struggles to create jobs and new revenue streams.
Classroom struggles show that the youth can shape their future and the future is the next generation jobs and new revenue streams. The next step for the 6th Parliament and its Portfolio Committees is to unleash the opportunities which come with the 5g spectrum solely for business opportunities lead by the youth. They must put an end to the auction they are planning for the past seven years. That is the youth power, that is needed as there is nothing else to give. AL JAMA-AH is very disappointed with the President’s commission on the 4th Industrial Revolution. AL JAMA-AH holds the view that its only young people who will lead South Africa into the 4th Industrial Revolution. Hendricks was the first to have welcomed the 10 schoolboys from China when they came to SA and today, they are billionaires who have created millions of jobs.
As a teacher at Mount View High School in Hanover Park during 1976 my students spontaneously came out in support of the Soweto students. But this has never been acknowledged, the uprising in the Western Cape was as big as Soweto. The ruling party’s best endeavours have failed and there is no hope for the personal safety of the residents on the Cape Flats after 26 years of democracy.
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Mr Ganief Hendricks
Cell: 082 780 2573