NFP Youth Movement president at Monash University

The National Freedom Party’s (NFP) Youth Movement president Sibusiso Mncwabe gave a bold speech to a packed lecture hall at Monash University on 24 October.

Mncwabe, who is a former ANC Youth League member and advocate, took a strong stance against the secrecy bill which was cleared by the ad hoc committee of the National Assembly that same day, as well as cadre deployment and infrastructure development plans like E-tolling, all of which he strongly feels is tantamount to corruption.

“It has seemed over the last few years, that in order to be a successful business man in South Africa, you have to be friends with President Zuma,” he stated, referring to tenders.. “These tenders are killing the country.”

He also made strong statements regarding the R200 million upgrade of Zuma’s Nkandla homestead. “I am also from KwaZulu Natal. I am struggling, like so many other South Africans, to pay off the bond on my humble suburban home. How can the ruling party justify such expenditure?”

Another issue he highlighted was the President’s recent disparaging remarks regarding the infrastructure in Malawi when defending plans on E-tolling. He said that South Africans shouldn’t “think like Africans generally,” and that highways in Gauteng province are “not some national road in Malawi”. Conditions in Malawi have improved a great deal since Joyce Banda became the country’s president in April last year – the first female president in Africa. The NFP is currently also led by a female leader, founder Zanelle kaMagwaza-Msibi. “It would be an honour for South Africa to follow in Malawi’s footsteps and elect our own female president, ” Mncwabe said.

Voting registrations are happening across the country on 9 and 10 November, and everyone is encouraged to be registered to be able to vote in the 2014 general elections.