ANCYL: National Dialogue must be about land, economic transformation
The ANC Youth League says it will only participate in the upcoming National Dialogue if the process includes conversations about land redress and economic transformation.
The organisation was reacting to the recent National Convention, which is meant to pave the way for the National Dialogue, which is expected to be held later this year across the country.
Pundits have criticised the National Dialogue as an expensive talk shop, while the government has described it as "a people-led, society-wide process to reflect on the state of the country.”
The ANC Youth League Executive Committee briefed the media in Johannesburg.
"Black people who constitute the majority of this country are living in squalid conditions in the informal settlements and in rural areas, in underdeveloped rural areas," said the league’s secretary general, Mntuwoxolo Ngudle.
"That's why I was saying we're not prepared as the Youth League to listen to anything that does not talk to this question about beneficiating our minerals, industrialisation, creating economic opportunities and jobs.
"That's what we are proposing in the National Dialogue. Anything that does not have that, we're not prepared to listen to that."
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