By Thabo Monyela
POLOKWANE- The ANC in Limpopo is at loggerheads with its provincial youth league (ANCYL) after the league chairperson labelled the mother body for not having an appetite to create jobs for youth.
During the ANC Veterans League provincial conference in Polokwane, ANCYL chairperson Tony Rachoene said the party doesn’t prioritise youth employment in the province, while there are funded unfilled posts in the provincial government.
” Young people are suffering on the ground and you expect an unemployed ANC Volunteer to go door to door for votes and promise people jobs, while they are not employed”. Rachoene said.
Rachoene further ruffled the feathers of Frans Mohlala’s house, when he said the party is doing nothing about non-performing deployees and that some ANC-deployed MECs and Mayors are sleeping on duty.
In a media statement, the Limpopo ANC labelled Rachoene’s remarks as misguided and mischievous and further dismissed the accusations that Premier has no will to fill the funded vacancies.
” It is not true that the ANC in Limpopo is doing nothing about its deployees at various levels of government, we have resolved to conduct an assessment of all its deployees, to assess if they are equal to the task.
During the recent PEC Lekgotla, Premier Chupu Mathabatha directed all MECs to expedite the process of filling all the existing funded vacancies” the party responded.
The party further said that an amount of 10 million has been set aside to empower youth through businesses.
In dismissing the ANC statement, the Youth league revealed that there are 13 736 vacant posts on persal that are yet to be filled and that the party can only show the statistics of EPWP and Teacher assistants as employment to youth.
The league further said it’s embarrassing for the Provincial Government to boost about 10 million for youth businesses, for a province as big as Limpopo.
