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uMkhonto weSizwe Party leader Jacob Zuma.
uMkhonto weSizwe (MK Party) leader, Jacob Zuma has told supporters at a Youth Day rally in Durban on Monday that it’s up to young people to liberate South Africa from the oppression it is currently experiencing.
The party launched its youth league at the event.
Zuma has highlighted youth unemployment and poverty as some of the current challenges. This, while the youth who took part in the 1976 uprising were protesting against black people not having a voice in issues affecting them, like Afrikaans as a language of teaching in schools.
Zuma says it’s up to the youth to fight present-day injustices.
[WATCH] “Today, I can say without hesitation that the youth of this country is on the road to liberate this country,” says uMkhonto weSizwe Party leader Jacob Zuma during the Youth Day commemorations in Clermont, south of Durban. pic.twitter.com/M3riffwN92
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“The youth must talk about the problems of this country. I don’t think we should keep quiet and wait for an occasion. We are still oppressed but the oppression of this time is at another level. We should not accept it; the youth is here.
When we started, we knew that we could not do everything in one day, but we will come slowly and until we reach our destination,” Zuma adds.
