PTT is “full of people who were close to Ace but now have dumped him”, says source in the Free State ANC
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/ 12 February 2011
Voting is under way at the ANC’s North West conference, where more than 700 delegates are due to elect the province’s new leadership.
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/ 12 February 2011
The outgoing ANC North West task team acknowledged its mistakes as the province kicked off its elective conference on Friday.
The carefully constructed unity of the African National Congress Youth League was showing cracks on Sunday at its congress in Johannesburg.
ANC Youth League conference runs behind schedule as NEC nominations are held up by a failure to reach consensus.
African National Youth League leader Julius Malema’s arch-rival helps Gwede Mantashe kill off the last efforts to challenge Malema’s authority.
The disappearance of delegates’ names and other data from voters’ rolls is apparently rife at regional ANC conferences.
Newly elected African National Congress Youth League (ANC) head Julius Malema used his first letter as president to chastise those who showed ”unbecoming conduct” at the league’s conference in Bloemfontein recently. ”Thugs and hooligans who believe they can hold the organisation to ransom … will be dealt with,” said Malema on Monday.
The African National Congress’s (ANC) national working committee (NWC) will discuss its youth league’s recent national congress in Bloemfontein next week, spokesperson Jesse Duarte said on Wednesday. ”We will speak at the NWC meeting on Monday,” Duarte said.
Julius Malema has been elected as African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) president at the league’s national conference at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein. Malema received 1Â 883 votes, it was announced on Monday, while the other candidate, Saki Mofokeng, received 1Â 696.
Kgalema Motlanthe, deputy president of the African National Congress (ANC), on Sunday criticised the ”state of disorder” that characterised the ANC Youth League’s (ANCYL) national conference in Bloemfontein. Outgoing ANCYL president Fikile Mbalula said that ”forces” had tried to disrupt the congress but that they had failed.