Child soldiers, pensioners, and foreigners taking over – ANCYL president issues warning

ANCYL president Collen Malatji. Picture: Nigel Sibanda ANC Youth League (ANCYL) president Collen Malatji says South Africa has warned members against being used by “pensioners” within the motherbody and claims SA is being hijacked by illegal foreigners. He was speaking at the closing of the youth league’s conference in the Eastern Cape over the weekend.

“In our towns, illegal foreigners have hijacked our buildings, our borders are open, our health system is collapsing, everything else is taken over by foreigners, and we are surrendering it to foreigners without fighting. “We must tell the minister of home affairs, the minister of police and the minister of defence that this country is not a country for illegal foreigners. It is a country for South Africans.

“South Africans must feel free in their own country and feel protected,” he said. Malatji claimed foreign nationals in South Africa are treated with hospitality, but sometimes this hospitality is being abused. “There are areas where you cannot walk as a South African.

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Kempton Park has been taken over by illegal foreigners, borders are open and the budgets given to Border Management Authority (BMA) is smaller than a budget given to a small municipality in the Eastern Cape. “People are expected to guard borders against criminals, but they are not given the budget to do that.Corruption is at the centreof it,” he alleged. Malatji also told delegates at the conference that they should lead the renewal programme of the ANC and not allow themselves to be used in the party’s factional battles. This statement comes as the country prepares for local government elections in November.

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