Letter: Youth league is the future

23 August 2016 - 09:21 By Errol Horwitz

If the ANC Youth League believes it is in a position to orchestrate the future role of ANC elders, it is no fantasy. The youth league has called for an overhaul of the party's leadership. In doing so, it excoriated ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe for calling on unnamed cadres to resign, and instead told Mantashe to "do so alone".Clearly the ANC's poor showing in the recent election has magnified factional rifts within the party, allowing the youth league to undermine the likes of Mantashe, who are deemed to be impediments to it increasing its sphere of influence within the organisation.Historically, the youth league has hardly been an influential body within the ANC. No longer, since the shift in power in the country has now afforded the young guns of the youth league the means to put the old men and women in Luthuli House out to pasture.Errol Horwitz, Fresnaye..

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