ANC national chairperson and mineral and petroleum resources minister Gwede Mantashe has sought to clarify his comments about youth unemployment that have stirred up quite a controversy last week.
Speaking at Nyanyadu Primary School in Dundee, KwaZulu-Natal, on Wednesday, Mantashe insisted he was misquoted as he did not call young people lazy.
I am fighting young people here. Theyve accused me of saying they are lazy and I deny that. Thats not what I said. I didnt use the term lazy. You can go back to my interview, you will not find lazy. I am making the point that we will only defeat unemployment if we are activists. If we are sleeping, we will not defeat it. We must be activists, he said.
