Eastern Cape ANCYL to ignore Malema suspension
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The Eastern Cape ANCYL has resolved to disregard its president Julius Malema's possible suspension until after a pronouncement on the matter at the ANC conference in December, according to a report on Wednesday.
"Julius is still the president, even if the mitigation can arrive at the same conclusion [that he be suspended] -- any discussion of a post-Julius era is premature at this stage," ANCYL provincial secretary Mziwonke Ndabeni was quoted as saying by the Dispatch Online.
At the weekend, the league's provincial executive committee (PEC) resolved to ask the league's national executive committee (NEC) to intervene on Malema's behalf.
Ndabeni said the Eastern Cape would propose that the NEC of the parent body should exhaust the two further options provided for by the ANC constitution to save Malema.
These were to take it to the ANC NEC for discussion, and if that failed, to write a discussion document which must be tabled at the national congress, for consideration.
"Between now and December, there is still that room for engagement. Those are part of the appeal processes which are in the ANC constitution. Once we take those two steps, it means that the suspension of Julius, the sanction and the sentence will not be enforced until those steps are concluded," said Ndabeni.
Ndabeni said talks on who would succeed Malema if he were to leave were "not even in our plan".
The African National Congress's disciplinary committee of appeals announced on Saturday it had dismissed appeals by Malema, his spokesman Floyd Shivambu, and four other ANCYL officials to overturn their suspensions. The four others are deputy president Ronald Lamola, treasurer general Pule Mabe, secretary general Sindiso Magaqa and deputy secretary general Kenetswe Mosenogi.
They were given two weeks to prepare arguments in mitigation of their suspensions.



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dopla1967
Posted 108 days agomatlhabaEuric
Posted 108 days agowhat does gold/yellow on the ANC flag symbolize??
I know the answers
MabhebezazEC
Posted 108 days agoKgalema for president!!!!!!!!!!
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samsam
Posted 108 days agoPosted 15 minutes ago
this is what Im refrring to tribal politics
Ngwijikhwebu
Posted 107 days agoRealAfricanDemocrat
danny.archer1
Posted 107 days agoOTTOOTTO
Posted 107 days agoThere is one thing that has come clear from the Malema disciplinary hearing, is that the ANC will step up its might against indisciplined power hungry gangsters and tenderprenuers like Ndabeni who seem to fill the media pages and young minds with total rubbish. This will create space for pragmatic vibrant positive thinking youths to address themselves to pertinent youth issue such as education, training, employment, culture, technology and environmental issues, etc. There isnt a single government in the world that is run by a youth movement or that will govern with a youth movement. So it will help if the youth were properly educated trained and politically groomed such as we see the Dina Pule's, Nathi Mthethwa's, Fikile Mbalula'a and Melusi Gigaba's mature into seasoned political giants.
Ndabeni is an opportunist and an escapist. Eastern Cape is a rotten bowel, schools are dysfunctional whilst the EC ANCYL bickers about Malema. Port of Nquga is lying empty wasting billions of our taxes in unused world class infrastructure that could employ at least 3500 young people each year. Shouldnt this be Ndabeni's first priority - fix Eastern Cape Provincial administration, fix the schools, fix the roads (Mandela Boulevard is a shame to the Mandela legacy), fix corruption and fix social cohesion.
Large numbers of young people leave the Eastern Cape for Gauteng, Cape Town, KwaZulu-Natal to escape poverty and perhaps escape Ndabeni rhetoric. All this youth migration happens while Ndabeni is bickering about things he has no understanding of meaning the ANC constitution. Its shocking to drive from the lush green plantations of KwaZulu-Natal into the dry deserted and impoverished fields of the Eastern Cape. Tears roll down your cheeks as you imagine the shameful waste of natural resources and under utilisation of human capital. All this while Ndabeni yanks mindlessly about an ANC that he has such poor understanding of.
The ANC is a voluntary organisation, you are free to leave as you were free to join. If you are not developing people for a better life, there is nothing to worth staying for unless you are power monger. Ndabeni and company if you are not happy in the ANC you are free to leave.
dopla1967
Posted 107 days agoMoBlaq
Posted 103 days ago