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The Daily Vox reports that the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) was joined by hundreds of protesters on Thursday in a march ending at the new Ballito Junction Regional Mall in demand for jobs for the youth.
The march saw altercations between protesters, journalists and the police. Protesters set a sugarcane field alight on the way to the mall. KwaZulu-Natal’s ANC Youth League secretary, Thanduxolo Sabelo, handed a memorandum to the developers. He said: “We are calling on all developers to include young and local people in the economy and share the spoils of the economy. We are calling on them to create jobs for locals and young people in particularly. More importantly we are calling for them to give 51% of the shares to locals.” Sabelo claimed that close to 20,000 young people had joined the march, but the police estimated the numbers as much lower.
- Read this report by Shaazia Ebrahim in full at The Daily Vox
- Read too, ANCYL job protesters push through boom gates at KZN mall, at TimesLive
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