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Original Post Date: 2008-04-21 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[Bunch of young clowns. Jan]
ANC Youth League President Julius Malema has condemned the “shameful” behaviour of some delegates at the league’s recent Bloemfontein congress.
Malema – who was elected at the congress – was speaking at the Soul City seminar on the implications of alcohol abuse on Friday. Substance abuse experts attending the seminar lauded the league’s campaign against alcohol abuse.
The behaviour of some ANCYL delegates who got drunk, exposed themselves and disrupted speeches by senior ANC leaders has been widely condemned.
Malema said the ANCYL believed alcohol abuse in South Africa had its roots in the past, when, in the midst of poverty and unemployment, beer halls flourished in the townships “as a deliberate strategy of the apartheid regime”.
He said the ANCYL’s campaign against alcohol was underpinned by two questions: “What calibre of youth do we want? Who will be champions of South Africa’s future?”
Malema called for a concerted effort to stop the “degeneration” of the youth’s moral fibre by “using education, inculcating a culture of reading, encouraging a healthy lifestyle through sport and responsible recreation”.
He also reiterated the league’s call for a ban on the sale of alcohol after 2am in all “places of entertainment”.
The league has also proposed that the drinking age in South Africa be increased from 18 to 21 years as in some other countries.
He said it was “unthinkable” to teach the youth to drive at the age of 18 while, at the same time, they had the right to buy alcohol.
Malema criticised the continued sale of alcohol on Sundays and said this, too, should be banned.
Professor Charles Parry, a substance abuse expert, praised the league’s efforts, saying much still needed to be done to curb alcohol abuse.
He said the government was on the right track by constantly increasing excise duties and VAT on alcoholic beverages to deter the youth from drinking.
“We need to regulate alcohol advertising to alter the drinking context, restrict the hours or days of when alcohol can be sold and the number alcohol outlets for alcohol.”