JUSTICE and Constitutional Development Minister Jeff Radebe has called on the ANC Youth League to emulate the party's fourth president, Josiah Gumede, who was "disciplined".
"Gumede of 2012 would have inspired the youth to be militant but adhered to organisational discipline," said Radebe.
"He would have encouraged youth to be radical but also to be disciplined as inheritors of the country that many paid their ultimate price for the freedom of our people."
Radebe, who is also policy sub-committee chairman of the ANC's national executive committee, was speaking at a memorial lecture organised by the eThekwini region in Durban on Monday night.
He said Gumede shared the youth league's economic freedom.
"Surely Gumede would have agreed with the youth league that economic freedom in our lifetime is an appropriate slogan and that they must ensure that the economy is in the hands of the people," he said.
Radebe called on ANC members to unite. "The clarity of unity of purpose is vital if we are to ensure the unity of the movement as unity without purpose cannot stand the immediate tasks."
He called on people with vision not to be destroyed.
"We must not destroy the visionaries among us; rather find ways to ensure that their ideas are shared.
The strength of the organisation is not just about the historical part but about how organisation adapts to the prevailing and changing conditions," he said.
He also lambasted factionalism.
"Today we see comrades when not elected, they go to sunshine and we never hear of them."
Radebe calls on youth league to be disciplined
JUSTICE and Constitutional Development Minister Jeff Radebe has called on the ANC Youth League to emulate the party's fourth president, Josiah Gumede, who was "disciplined".
"Gumede of 2012 would have inspired the youth to be militant but adhered to organisational discipline," said Radebe.
"He would have encouraged youth to be radical but also to be disciplined as inheritors of the country that many paid their ultimate price for the freedom of our people."
Radebe, who is also policy sub-committee chairman of the ANC's national executive committee, was speaking at a memorial lecture organised by the eThekwini region in Durban on Monday night.
He said Gumede shared the youth league's economic freedom.
"Surely Gumede would have agreed with the youth league that economic freedom in our lifetime is an appropriate slogan and that they must ensure that the economy is in the hands of the people," he said.
Radebe called on ANC members to unite. "The clarity of unity of purpose is vital if we are to ensure the unity of the movement as unity without purpose cannot stand the immediate tasks."
He called on people with vision not to be destroyed.
"We must not destroy the visionaries among us; rather find ways to ensure that their ideas are shared.
The strength of the organisation is not just about the historical part but about how organisation adapts to the prevailing and changing conditions," he said.
He also lambasted factionalism.
"Today we see comrades when not elected, they go to sunshine and we never hear of them."
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