‘ANCYL Lejweleputswa Primed for March to Sibanye Still Water Mine’
The ANCYL Youth League in Lejweleputswa region set to march on Friday 08 August, 2025 for the highest rate of unemployment in the region. This follows the recent Provincial and regional marches for the pandemic of unemployment as described by the Provincial Chairperson Junior Lehlehla.
“The mineral wealth beneath the soil, the banks and monopoly industry shall be transferred to the ownership of the people as a whole” quoted the ANCYL in Lejweleputswa.
“Together with our community in Lejweleputswa, we are taking the struggle to the gates of Sibanye Stillwater Mine to confront head on the mineral energy finance complex, the commanding heights of capital that have kept South Africa trapped in a colonial and capitalist pattern of underdevelopment”.
A phenomenon we have described as “from pit to port” captures the reality in which the mines extract our minerals through the super exploitation of labour, strip the land of its wealth, and ship raw materials abroad where real value is created for foreign industries and capitalist elites. What remains here are polluted communities, mass unemployment, and deep poverty, while the boardrooms in Sandton, London, and New York count record profits.
The regional Secretary Vusi Tshabalala said this is the structural violence of our economy, an architecture built to export jobs and import poverty and further concluded this march is a direct and they demand answers from Sibanye as one of the beneficiaries of the mass economy of Lejweleputswa region.
