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But Ramaphosa wasn’t interested on Sunday, as he instead gave a speech that was more of a history lesson from Sasco.
He wished Sasco the best, saying that it was an important organization in the pursuit of the so-called National Democratic Revolution (NDR).
“We need a strong Sasco that ensures conditions in higher education institutions improve and lead to academic excellence and success,” Ramaphosa said.
“In this sense, Sasco’s success is inexplicably linked to the ANC’s success in building an educated society based on the vision of the Freedom Charter that was drafted by our ancestors.
“Sasco is too important an organization not to be successful. Its future as an organization is that it must be successful in executing the goals of our revolution, ”he continued.
Speaking at the same rally, SACP Secretary General Blade Nzimande also praised Sasco for his understanding of the NDR.
But Nzimande, unlike Ramaphosa, also addressed current hot topics such as corruption, which he described as the greatest threat to the progress of ANC and SA society in general.
“This issue of corruption actually threatens to derail our revolution and defeat their future as youth who are actually the future of our country,” said Nzimande.
“Therefore, it is very important that Sasco be at the forefront to truly defeat the scourge of corruption.”
Nzimande also called on Sasco to lead the fight against other “regressive tendencies in the organization,” such as factionalism, which threatens the very existence of the ANC-led alliance, which includes SACP and Cosatu.
Nzimande hit the ANC “which at this time is facing very serious factionalist behavior.”
According to Nzimande, it was Sasco who had the potential to stop factionalism and corruption within the ranks of the ANC.
As students take matters into their own hands, Nzimande said, they must guard against populism.
“Some of our leaders find it easy to promise our people things that they know will not be achieved overnight,” Nzimande said.
“But because there is this bad tendency of wanting to tell people what they want to hear, we end up being populists.”
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