Rainbow nation must be seen everywhere-Lamola



        ANCYL deputy president Roanald Lamola says nationalisation is

         a done deal.

 Lebohang Pita
@LeboPita

“We cannot continue to be told about the rainbow nation that we only see during soccer matches and rugby world cups.” African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) deputy president Ronald Lamola told TUT students at the TUT Soshanguve campus on Tuesday August, 07.

“You must not wait to go to Loftus to see a rainbow nation…The rainbow nation must be seen everywhere-in the Metro rails-we must not only see it in the Gautrain.”

Lamola was addressing Public Management and Local Government students on the role of a public administrator in an event organized by the South African Association of Public Administrator and Management (SAAPAM) TUT student charter.

He claimed that South Africa will only be united if we all had the same economic means and nothing else.

“We are not going to be united by the rugby world cup or the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). We will only be brought together if all of us have the same economic means to go to the same restaurants, hospitals and the same areas that will befit a nation at one.”

Lamola reiterated that they are no longer talking about whether or not the nationalization of mines will happen because it is a done deal.

“Where we are now, we are no longer speaking about whether nationalization is going to happen or not. Nationalisation has already happened.”

“What we are debating now is what must be strategically nationalized…we are now scouting the natural resources we are going to nationalize.”

He said public administration is the core of service delivery and the key driver of the economic imperatives of the country.

Lamola claimed that all over the world nations were being driven by young people and urged young South Africans to plot their own future instead of letting old people plan the future of this country.

Lamola (C) says SA will only be united by the economy.

He said the revolution has always been a festival of young people and South Africa was liberated because of an organization (ANC) formed by young people.

“To be able to able to redirect the economy of South Africa, young people’s minds must be harnessed properly because the youth of South Africa used their energy and creativity to create certain things in terms of how they must create crime and so forth.”

“If you have got a huge number of unemployment, the only thing they will think about creatively is how they must deal and commit criminal activities.”

He called on the youth to partake in the administrative duties and political activities of the country.

“We need a group of educated public administrators that will be able to interpret the legislations and policies of government, that will be a capable cadre in public administration. A person who will enter into public administration and understand that his role is firstly to serve the people of South Africa.”

Lamola said the youth must be worried when the current crop of public administrators fail to fulfill their mandate.

He added that South Africa needs a system that will allow public administrators to resign voluntarily if they have failed the people of South Africa without being pushed to quit by South Africans.

“If a person has failed, he must voluntarily resign. People must not wait for us to toyi-toyi and move up and down and run around the streets for them to resign for what they have failed to do.”

“You must take responsibility and the best way is to say-South Africans I have failed my mandate in terms of the key service delivery requirements and indicators that I have signed with the president (of the country). I am therefore apologizing for all the mess that I have created.And for that apology, it must not come alone-I am also resigning as a minister.”