AfriForum has withdrawn an urgent court application against Defence and Military Veterans Minister Lindiwe Sisulu, after she decided not to give the ANC Youth League and Young Communists’ League military training. It had applied for an the urgent interdict to review Sisulu’s decision to send the youth organisations’ leaders on a two week special programme at Saldanha Navy Base, in the Western Cape. This was to enable the youth to experience the curriculum and activities of national service. “Serious concerns were raised at the time as a result of parallels drawn with [Zimbabwe President] Robert Mugabe’s militia training for Zanu-PF youths in Zimbabwe,” AfriForum’s legal representative Willie Spies said in a statement on Sunday.
He said it was a pity that AfriForum had to make a court application to get answers from the minister. “This would not have been necessary if the minister showed the basic courtesy of responding to letters addressed to her.” Spies said Sisulu had made her latest declaration under oath. “If it appears at any stage that the minister wants to continue with her initial plans, AfriForum will re-enroll the urgent application immediately.”
AfriForum would apply this week for a new court date to argue the issue of costs, he said. On Friday, Sisulu’s spokesman Ndivhuwo Mbaya said a national service two week special programme designed for the leadership of all youth organisations would continue as soon as all logistics and consultation processes had been concluded.
Source: Times Live
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