The ANC Youth League (ANCYL) will lobby the mother body in a bid to have e-tolls scrapped, secretary general Njabulo Nzuza said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
“The ANC is the organisation of the people and it should therefore listen to the people when they say they do not want e-tolls,” he told reporters in Pretoria where the ANCYL was holding a four-day national executive committee (NEC) meeting.<\/p>\n
“We must investigate other means to fund massive infrastructure projects that the ANC-led government has continued to carry out in the quest of improving the lives of our people,” said Nzuza.<\/p>\n
This was one of the policy issues the ANCYL would take to next week’s National General Council (NGC) which will be held in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n
Nzuza said the more than 2 000 delegates who attended the ANCYL national congress last month gave its new leaders a mandate to push the mother body into scrapping the e-tolling system.<\/p>\n
He said the league wanted to “infuse” its ideas on the ANC so that they became policy issues.<\/p>\n
The ANCYL would use the NEC meeting to strategise the local government elections, implementing its resolutions taken at congress and its position at the NGC.<\/p>\n
Another key issue the league will be pushing at the NGC is a 40% representation of youth in all spheres of government starting next year with the local government elections.<\/p>\n
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