African National Congress (ANC) chairperson Gwede Mantashe has been urged to clarify his comments suggesting that young people are unwilling to apply for jobs.<\/p>\n
Mantashe has faced backlash following remarks made during a television interview, where he claimed that unemployed youth don\u2019t want to apply for employment.<\/p>\n
The ANC Youth League and several other organisations have described the comments as ignorant and tone-deaf.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the annual Peter Mokaba Memorial Lecture in the North West on Friday evening, ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula called on Mantashe to clarify his statements.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat matter must be clarified. If it isn\u2019t clarified, it will remain that the national chair said that young people are lazy and aren\u2019t applying for jobs. That\u2019s what the media has said,\u201d mouthed Mbalula.<\/p>\n
Mbalula claims Mantashe informed him that he was misquoted, although the comments were made during a live television interview.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf he does not clarify himself, I will issue a statement on behalf of the ANC to reprimand him. If those are his views, they cannot be the views of the national chair of the ANC.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"African National Congress (ANC) chairperson Gwede Mantashe has been urged to clarify his comments suggesting that young people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[397,398,403,400,399,401,96,402,406,405,404,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-14083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-ewn","9":"tag-ewn-news","10":"tag-ewn-south-africa","11":"tag-eye-witness-news","12":"tag-eyewitness-news","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-news-today","16":"tag-prime-media-plus","17":"tag-primedia-plus","18":"tag-primedia","19":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}