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counterparts for emphasising that economic empowerment and redistribution of land to the black majority was instrumental in addressing inequalities and poverty in their country.
The ANC Youth League held its congress from June 16 to June 19 and resolved that the land reform programme in their country was supposed to be expedited. Zanu PF Youth League secretary for lands and land reform and resettlement, Cde Annastancia Ndlovu, on Wednesday said that they were impressed with the developments in ANC Youth wing.

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“We attended the ANC as Zanu PF youths and we are pleased with the outcome and the resolutions that were adopted by our counterparts and relate very well with what we are doing here as a nation.
“The ANC youths resolved that the economic empowerment drive in their country had to be taken to a higher level that the land reform programme be expedited following the failure of the willing buyer-willing seller method,” she said.

Cde Ndlovu said Zimbabwe and South Africa shared similar backgrounds dating back to the colonial era and urged the youths in the two countries and Africa as a whole to take up the fight for economic emancipation.
“As Zanu PF, we say the position they have adopted on land is right because land should be given back to its rightful owners.

“The colonialists never paid a cent for the land so we should also not pay for it.
“There is no independence without economic empowerment so just as our founding fathers like President Mugabe, Kwame Nkrumah, Nelson Mandela and others fought for political independence as youths we should lead the fight for economic freedom,” she said.

The Zanu PF delegation was made up of Cde Ndlovu and secretary for external affairs, Cde Kudzanai Chipanga.
Cde Ndlovu commended the ANC youths for calling for strengthening of ties among youths leagues from former liberation parties.

“The ANC Youth League president Cde Julius Malema made a clarion call for the strengthening of ties between leagues from former liberation movements like Zanu PF and SWAPO from Namibia,” she said.
Cde Malema also condemned the bombarding of Libya by Nato as an attack on Libya’s sovereignty and called for a peaceful resolution of the problem led by African countries.