ANC youth leader to tour Australia
By Sean Malloy
Jeremiah Ndou, head of the ANC Youth League International Affairs Department, will be a guest of the radical youth organisation Resistance at its 22nd national conference in July. Resistance is also organising a tour for Ndou which will include most capital cities in Australia and four days in New Zealand.
"Solidarity with the struggle for democracy in South Africa is crucial", said Jorge Jorquera, national coordinator of Resistance. "Resistance proposed the tour, as part of its invitation to the Youth League, to give people in Australia a chance to hear first-hand the ANC's view of what's happening in South Africa, without the mass media blurring the information."
The ANC Youth League or "Young Lions" was formally established in 1944 and included in its leadership at the time people such as Nelson Mandela, Anton Lembede, Walter Sisulu and Oliver Tambo. The Youth League had more than 500,000 members in 1991, and has since grown.
The theme of the tour will be "Votes for all, peace, justice and democracy".
"We hope to make it a jam-packed tour", Jorquera adds. "We are organising large public meetings, campus meetings, social gatherings and fundraisers, and meetings with solidarity organisations and unions."
Ndou will arrive in Australia in late June.