ANC dissolves Youth League

Johannesburg.

“An interim team will be selected and put in place by the NWC (national working committee).”
The decision was taken at a three-day African National Congress national executive committee (NEC) meeting held in Irene, south of Pretoria, at the weekend.
Mantashe said the NEC had instructed that all processes be stopped immediately with regard to the pending provincial and regional conferences of the ANCYL.
Some were trying to rush these conferences so that leaders could be elected.

“We can’t have a leadership that is instant,” said Mantashe.
“There is a difference between filter coffee and instant coffee.”

An AFP report also said the ANC’s leadership in Limpopo province had also been axed due to “totally un-ANC behaviour and institutionalised factional conduct”.
ANC delegates from both the youth league and Limpopo had thrown their weight behind a challenger to Zuma’s party leadership in internal polls in December.

The Mail & Guardian also reported that the ANC’s national executive committee had disbanded its youth wing and said that the move may possibly be seen as a purge of those who disagreed with President Jacob Zuma.

The decision to disband the ANC Youth League national executive committee comes a few weeks after it was assured by the ANC top six it would not be disbanded.
Immediately after the dissolution decision was taken, the youth league’s acting president Ronald Lamola and deputy secretary-general Kenetswe Mosenogi were asked to leave, as they were no longer regarded as part of the NEC.

Several insiders confirmed the events on twitter, as did Floyd Shivambu, a spokesperson for the ANCYL when Julius Malema headed the youth organisation. — Sapa/News24.