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RESOLUTIONS
The
Annual Conference of the I F P Youth Brigade met in Ulundi on this
22nd day of October and unanimously adopted the following
RESOLUTION
1:
PRINCE
MANGOSUTHU BUTHELEZI
Conference:
Enjoying three decades of the energetic and
youthful leadership of Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi and his courage
as a statesman, commitment as the champion of the poorest of the
poor in both the rural and urban areas and as the ultimate conviction
politician:
Resolves:
1. To
express our thanks and love to our President for all that he has
done for the youth of this country and for showing that democracy
is attainable and must be nurtured if it is to thrive; and,
2. To
offer our unstinting support to our President's leadership and further
renewal and regeneration of the IFP.
RESOLUTION
2:
NEW FACES OF YOUTH
BRIGADE
Conference:
Noting that for the first time in our nation's
history the Youth Executive were elected directly by the Conference:
Resolves:
1. To
congratulate our new Executive and wish them well as they tackle
the challenges of leadership.
RESOLUTION
3:
LOCAL
GOVERNMENT
Conference:
Noting that the youth of the Party have an indispensable
role to play in securing a resounding victory in the forthcoming
local government elections:
Resolves:
1. That
our election campaign must be relevant and therefore about delivery
of basic services that fall within the competence of local government
such as municipal health services and the provision of water and
sanitation; That for the sake of our constituents that this election
must produce IFP councillors who will best manage them in their
day-to-day interaction with the community;
2. That
we undertake intensive voter registration on the next registration
day; That extraordinary efforts are made to regain every single
ward that the IFP has lost in by-elections and floor-crossing over
the past five years by door-to-door canvassing and getting people,
particularly, the elderly to vote on election day;
3. That
the IFP-led councils make every effort to communicate to their constituents
their record of service delivery over the past five years; and,
That the forthcoming Local Government Elections will be our springboard
to regain control of KwaZulu-Natal in 2009 creating an unstoppable
momentum for an IFP victory.
RESOLUTION
4:
RADICAL EDUCATION REFORM
Conference:
Noting that the IFP has always championed the
need for education and, unlike the ANC that once promoted "liberation
before education", has consistently stood for "education
for liberation"; and,
Transformation driven by ideology has diminished
the quality of education in our country by undermining the system
as well as individual performance achieved under the system.
Resolves:
1. To
motivate for a meaningful overhaul of South Africa's flawed education
system through SADESMO in tertiary institutions, and through our
elected representatives in the media; and,
2. To
throw our weight behind our Party as it prepares a comprehensive
reform of the education system promoting a tax-funded voucher system
whereby government subsidies schools of parents' choice in strict
proportion to enrolment.
RESOLUTION
5:
MAJOR CHALLENGES
Conference:
Noting that the ANC governing alliance is fracturing
and that the ANC is no longer the electoral juggernaut that it was
in the last three general elections and that this leaves South Africa
with a huge leadership gap as the government appears to have run
out of ideas and steam:
Resolves:
1.
That the IFP, who are moral and
constructive government-in-waiting, must seize this opportunity
and maximise its efforts to rethink its strategy, refashion its
public policies with modern and dynamic alternatives;
2. Not
to seek political capital out of the Jacob Zuma affair; and
3. To
work to restore a respect agenda amongst our youth and to condemn
the yobbish behaviour meted out to KwaZulu-Natal Premier S'bu Ndebele
by supporters of his own party.
RESOLUTION
6:
HIV/AIDS
Conference:
Noting that from a statistical perspective,
the HIV/Aids pandemic has not reached its turning point in its growth
trajectory. On the contrary, in KwaZulu-Natal the incidence of HIV/Aids
has grown to 40.5 percent suggesting that all previous to promote
prevention by abstinence alone has failed:
Resolves:
1. That
the IFP Youth Brigade will work to stimulate a paradigm shift to
change the perception of Aids as a lethal disease and dispel the
stigma of its sufferers by promoting the manageability of the disease
as a chronic condition; and
2. To
campaign to dispel the myth of a virgin cure, educate boys and girls
about controlling their sexual relationships, and to do our bit
to assist orphans and children who head households.
RESOLUTION
7:
"IFP MUST GROW"
Conference:
Noting that many obituaries that predicted our
political demise following the 2004 electoral setback have failed
to deliver what their authors intended and, eighteen months on,
the IFP is alive, well and growing.
Resolves:
1. To
defy all our critics and detractors and to demonstrate that we are
a growing and vibrant party; and,
2. To
urge the IFP members, public representatives, party officials and
activists to use every available forum to further our claim to be
the government in KwaZulu-Natal and the Official Opposition in the
National Assembly in 2009.
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