youth affairs, this is the official position of PAYCO. In this call he also highlighted the failure of youth structures such as the New York City and UYF. Sbusiso, as president, also participated in local and national discourses. One of the major issues was that of Name change, were the ruling ANC was changing the names of towns and streets. However, in Kwazulu-Natal the ANC decided it was premature to be preoccupied with name changes in that province. Sbusiso, spoke again the position of the ANC claiming that it was South Africans' responsibility to ensure 'that everlasting monuments of our heroes are built through infrastructure naming and our real identity comes through the names of our towns and cities'." While a president for PAYCO Sbusiso continued to have interest in student activism. His engagement in student issues was mostly through Pan Africanist Student Movementof Azania (PASMA), he every now and then commenented and got involved directly. After the 2006 South African National Matriculation Exam results release, Sbusiso hinted the need for students to be taught "in the language of their choice". On November 11 and 12, 2006 Sbusiso, as president of PAYCO, attended the African People's Solidarity Day in Philadelphia, PA. In this event, Sbusiso was also a speaker. He opened his "presentation by quoting Nigerian leader Nnamdi Azikiwe, 'we are independent in everything, neutral in nothing', stating that in the African struggle, there is no middle ground between liberation and imperialist imposed violence; "We are faced with two options, democracy and terror…democracy is not elections, it is not even the right to speak…democracy is power, democracy is power lying the right hands…" Sibusiso opened his last Congress as President of PAYCO, in 2007 at Durban where the new leadership of PAYCO was elected. In this congress, Under theme "Mobilizing Youth Power to Build Socialism and African Unity,","emphasised the need to strengthen our African working class movement to wrestle power from imperialist forces by being involved in all matters affecting Africa and Africans everywhere." African Socialist International(ASI) Sbusiso is a member of the International Central Committee of the African Socialist International. Sbusiso, as PAYCOpresident, hosted the president of African Socialist International(ASI), Chairman Omali Yeshitela, in his tour to South Africa. Other activities Professional Memberships Sbusiso has been a member of various professional bodies including the Southern African Institute of Industrial Engineering, International Council on Systems Engineering, Gauteng Board of Black