ANC to decide on youth league amid disbandment protests

Groups of party youths from various provinces, calling themselves the ANCYL Revival Movement, are pushing to have the league’s structures dissolved and a task team appointed leading up to a national elective conference. 

Disgruntled members of the league staged a protest at the St George Hotel in Irene on Friday, where the ANC's national executive committee (NEC) was meeting, demanding the immediate disbandment of the league's provincial and national leadership led by Collen Maine.

A conference to elect new leadership is long overdue, with the last elective conference held in September 2015 in Johannesburg, where Maine was elected president.

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ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe told the media the grievances have been forwarded to the party's national working committee and is set to be discussed in the meeting.

"The national working committee is filing that memorandum today with a recommendation to the NEC. We are going to make an announcement on how the Youth League is going to be organised henceforth immediately after this NEC.

"Stronger youth league will breed a stronger ANC. A weaker youth league will breed a weaker ANC. So come Monday all of you must go and swell the ranks of ANC Youth League we are going to issue clear directions of what is to happen."

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