ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has been re-elected for a second term at the organisation’s elective congress in Midrand.

While the Young Communist League offered a conciliatory message to the ANC Youth League, the ANC veterans had sterner words for the young ‘uns.

The ANC Youth League has received strong support from African allies for its radical economic reform policies on day two of its elective congress.

Their ‘Umshini wam’ moves aside, the rift between Julius Malema and Jacob Zuma was laid bare by their respective speeches at the ANCYL conference.

President Jacob Zuma says the ANC youth league must guard against changing the character of the ANC in the process of growing its own membership.

Assured of an easy win, Julius Malema focused on land expropriation in his speech at the ANC Youth League elective conference.

ANCYL president Julius Malema is all but guaranteed a second term after would-be challenger Lebogang Maile failed to win any provincial backing.