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Swazi Youth Congress Statement

SWAZI YOUTH ON THE REVOLUTIONARY ROAD TO A NEW AND DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY!

- 9th General Congress held at Matsulu Youth Centre.


SWAYOCO HOLDS HISTORIC CONGRESS

SWAYOCO comes from a background of militant, disciplined youth
struggles.. On its formation, it declared to sweep clean the
tinkhundla chaos, which was and is still is reigning in Swaziland.
This giant youth movement has been borne out of the irreconcilable
contradictions between the tinkhundla royalist ruling regime and the
oppressed youth of Swaziland. As PUDEMO was born to put Swaziland on a
future pedestal of democracy and human rights, where the people of
Swaziland will one day take control of their lives and against this
backdrop, it was bound for PUDEMO to give birth to this giant youth
movement in order to mobilise the general youth of the country.

"If yesterday belonged to Tinkhundla oppression, then surely tomorrow
belongs the people. This means today we must begin our journey on the
road map to a tomorrow, a new and democratic Swaziland based on the
aspirations of the people" - Road Map to a new and Democratic Swaziland.

The Congress notes that it is, ironically, in this same venue that the
Road Map to a New and Democratic Swaziland was adopted by the 6th
General Congress of PUDEMO in December 2006. The PUDEMO congress was,
naturally, instructive to SWAYOCO and all structures of the Movement
to heed the calls of the "foreign natives" that the despotic
tinkhundla has defined the general citizenry to be.

In this regard, we take the spear from our gallant fallen hero,
revolutionary, fighter, and democrat, cde Dr. Gabriel Thandokuhle
Mkhumane to the battlefront in the fight against poverty, ignorance,
and economic lack and backwardness. We say as a youth "your spirit
will always be with us in the fight against tinkhundla tyranny". As a
youth, we shall put revolutionary critical consciousness to the
forefront in fighting for the issues, which are stopping the youth of
Swaziland from progressing and reaching significant levels of
development in Swaziland. Freedom should move in the grass of the land
of our birth. This coming decade is the decade of the youth. It shall
enrol in all activities of the organisation, in all programmes for
liberation. It shall be involved in mass work, underground work, and
in international work. SWAYOCO shall be a school, which will equip the
youth to claim back its lost dignity from the oppressors.

Against this context, the youth parliament the 9th General Congress
came out with these tasks:

That in less than three months the present leadership needs to put up
a Special Conference to deal with issues we have not been finished
during the congress.

To put political education at the cutting edge of all organisational work.

To revive the Students Movement that is SNUS, SAS, and the Trade Union
Movement (especially to ensure that the youth participates in the
trade union movement). This task will enable SWAYOCO to be really a
mass youth movement representing the aspirations of the Swazi Youth.

To engage Swazi youth both working and learning in South Africa to be
part of the patriotic youth and to join all ranks of the democratic
organisation.

To come up with a principled format in terms of engaging our allies in
South Africa ? the Young Communist League, the African Congress Youth
League together with its student's detachment the South African
Students Congress (SASCO) and the Congress of South African Students
(COSAS). This principled format has to be used with other allies in
Southern Africa and internationally.

To develop a clear, workable and comprehensive plan that will deal
with the integration of all various segments of the youth, with an
intention of creating a popular, united and formidable force for
change as led by the youth forces, in liaison with other critical
forces for change like the trade union movement.

After the special congress, the new leadership of SWAYOCO will come up
with the proper resolutions to galvanise all efforts of the youth
towards a multiparty dispensation in Swaziland.

LET ALL WHO LOVE THE COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE JOIN THE JOURNEY TO A NEW
AND DEMOCRATIC SWAZILAND!
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