ANCYL says upcoming NGC is the “real” National Dialogue

By Simon Nare

African National Congress Youth League president Collen Malatji has lambasted the recent convention of the National Dialogue, describing it as a tea party that excluded young people who should have made meaningful contributions about their own futures.

Malatji told journalists on Wednesday that any genuine National Dialogue should put the youth at the centre and produce clear goals. The meeting had failed in this regard.

Instead, he argued that the youth were reduced to being spectators without playing any role in the deliberations.

This should never happen again, he warned.

“Any genuine National Dialogue must put the youth at the centre and must produce clear outcomes-based goals, prioritising the economy, jobs and creation of education. Without youth there is no future.

“The agenda of the National Dialogue, we re-emphasise, it must be economy, economy, inclusive economy and economy. Anything else is a joke.”

Malatjie complained that even