Since the establishment of the task team in April and following an assessment, it has disbanded seven provincial executive committees (PECs) and several regional structures in the provinces, although the Eastern Cape has been spared.
However, according to an internal report, the task team is planning to strip the provincial leadership of some of its powers and functions, despite a positive
report on the standing of the league in the province.
"[The] overall impression about the state of the youth league in the Eastern Cape is relatively good, with functional PEC and regions," the report reads.
"This impression is captured in the organisational report presented to the seventh provincial conference [of the Eastern Cape ANC] which says 'The youth league in the province went to its provincial congress in 2010 and its PEC is functional. All the regions of the youth league were launched; the ANCYL PEC must be commended for finally launching the regions of Chris Hani and Joe Gqabi, which have never had a regional structure of the ANCYL since realignment of regions'."
But the task team found the terms of office of all the executive committees of the regions have lapsed and that congresses are overdue. It also found that league members who held different views from those of the provincial executive committee are being marginalised and described relations between the party and league as "arduous".
The task team proposes that the preparations for the regional congresses and branch meetings be taken over from the committee and be overseen by the task team, with assistance by ANC deployees in the province.
But the committee members have vowed to fight this.
One, who wanted to remain anonymous, said it did not make sense that the task team had found the league "functional organisationally and meeting all its obligations" but wanted to "strip the people who are behind the functional league of their powers".
"You begin to ask what is the purpose of the [NTT]? Are they disbanding structures because they are dysfunctional or disbanding structures because they supported a different view in Mangaung?" the committee member asked.
Another member said that, if the committee was stripped of its powers to organise the provincial congresses, the body would ask the party's top six officials to intervene.
The task team wrote that its recommendations were aimed at levelling the playing field and opening up the league in the province to all members without compromising organisational processes.
But league leaders in the province fear the task team wants to take control because it has an interest in drawing up the lists for elections to ensure that people who support President Jacob Zuma are favoured.
The league's national spokesperson, Bandile Masuku, said he could not comment on the report as it had not been presented to or discussed by the national working committee.
"It's unfortunate that it has been leaked. It is still to be presented. Recommendations and other things might still change," he said.