'Motlanthe will be president': Lamola
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe will be ANC president, ANCYL deputy president Ronald Lamola said in Johannesburg on Monday.
"It is given comrades that the current deputy president of the ANC, comrade Kgalema, will one day become the president of the ANC," Lamola said.
"It will be a generational error if he does not become the president. We will be rewriting the history of the African National Congress."
Lamola was addressing the ANC Youth League's Dr Mxolisi Majombozi branch at the University of the Witwatersrand.
He was reporting back on the league's policy conference held in June, the league's role, and reflecting on former president Nelson Mandela's contribution to the struggle.
He said it was tradition in the mother body for the ANC's deputy president to take over from the president.
"What we are going to do when this debate is opened towards Mangaung, we are going to debate when he must become the president," Lamola said to a cheering crowd. He was referring to the ANC's elective conference, to be held in Mangaung in December.
"That he will be president is given."
Before Lamola spoke, attendees chanted "let Kgalema rule".
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Posted 292 days agoFrancis
For your attention some info about the Donen report viz Motlanthe, Sexwale, Madjali and last but not least: Mac Maharaj who is also sitting on the hot coals.
Read at the website of m&g about the Donen report and the not clearing from Matlanthe.
RSA.MommaCyndi
Posted 292 days agoIf Lamola doesn't understand the difference between 'debating' and 'dictating' then he is no better than Malema was
Scribbles
After reading their position on Pilgrim's Rest, I was pleasantly surprised by what was said but the truth is that nothing has changed. They still react on their gut feelings rather than any notion of debate, thought or foresight.
ProgressiveAfricanDemocrat
RSA.MommaCyndi
Seems like your understanding of the word 'debate' is as flimsy as your president's.
If the ANCYL want to run the country then they must stand for elections, on their own, and get a mandate from the voting public to do so. Until that time, they should (along with the SACP and Cosatu) just stick to what they are mandated to do - represent the concerns of their paid members - and leave grown up stuff to the grown ups
OBigOneKenobi
So carry on shooting your mouth off, Lamola. I love watching people like you hang themselves with their own arrogance. Pride comes before a fall - always.
Mike123
Posted 292 days agoOf course if they'd listened to me five years ago, we wouldn't have a rapist criminal thug for a president today.
BokFan
Posted 292 days agoSame pond,same slime, same DNA
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MicaParis
Posted 292 days agoOBigOneKenobi
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Posted 292 days agojuly1974
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Posted 292 days agoi_stub_born
Posted 292 days agoWhat the thugs of the Little League do believe, is to form gangs of marauder youngsters armed with AK-47 and Ray-Ban glasses invading private property and ransacking in the name of "restitution and reconciliation"....Naturally, the booty will go shared between Malema and other bullies, AND, whoever is fueling their renovated arrogance and stupidity. Juju and sweetheart, who probably are enjoying the Olympic Games and using the occasion to take money out of the country, feel like a restored, recycled condom............
when_juju_is_back
Posted 292 days agoFrancis
Posted 292 days agoFor your attention some info about the Donen report viz Motlanthe, Sexwale, Madjali and last but not least: Mac Maharaj who is also sitting on the hot coals.
Read on the website of m&g about the Donen report that doesn't clear Motlanthe and ilks.