The Eastern Cape ANC Youth League will challenge Sunday’s decision by its mother body to disband the provincial executive committee (PEC).
Sources said the decision to disband the structure was over differences regarding calls to remove ANC president Jacob Zuma.
The youth league’s provincial executive met in Bhisho yesterday to discuss a way forward. The structure, led by Nathi Nqoko as chairman and Butsha Lali as provincial secretary, was booted out on Sunday by the league’s national executive committee (NEC).
Speaking to the Dispatch after a press briefing on Sunday, ANCYL national spokesman Mlonzi Mkhize said the provincial structure was dissolved because the league wanted “to strengthen its structures”.
But after a PEC meeting yesterday, the Eastern Cape league’s provincial spokesman, Ayongezwa Lungisa, said they would appeal the decision internally.
Lungisa said the league had resolved to write to ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe and the party’s national working committee (NWC).
He said they would first explore all internal avenues, failing which “we could seek relief in court if we are allowed to do so”.
Some PEC members, who asked to remain anonymous, said they were disbanded for supporting the call for Zuma’s removal and their stance against holding an early ANC elective conference.
However, Lungisa said one of the reasons given to them by the NEC was that the league had failed to host various projects in honour of OR Tambo in October last year.
Another reason was that they had failed to hold PEC meetings in recent months. He said these “reasons” were unjustified.
“We feel that there are things not related to youth development which had forced them to disband us,” said Lungisa.
The call to dissolve the Eastern Cape youth league PEC and their counterparts in the Greater Johannesburg region was endorsed after the league’s NEC met over the weekend.
It comes after both structures recently broke ranks with their mother body over calls for Zuma’s removal and the holding of an early elective conference by the ANC.
The current Eastern Cape structure is the fourth ANC Youth League executive in the province to be disbanded by the league’s mother body since 2006. — asandan@dispatch.co.za
Youth league to fight disbanding of its committee
Sources said the decision to disband the structure was over differences regarding calls to remove ANC president Jacob Zuma.
The youth league’s provincial executive met in Bhisho yesterday to discuss a way forward. The structure, led by Nathi Nqoko as chairman and Butsha Lali as provincial secretary, was booted out on Sunday by the league’s national executive committee (NEC).
Speaking to the Dispatch after a press briefing on Sunday, ANCYL national spokesman Mlonzi Mkhize said the provincial structure was dissolved because the league wanted “to strengthen its structures”.
But after a PEC meeting yesterday, the Eastern Cape league’s provincial spokesman, Ayongezwa Lungisa, said they would appeal the decision internally.
Lungisa said the league had resolved to write to ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe and the party’s national working committee (NWC).
He said they would first explore all internal avenues, failing which “we could seek relief in court if we are allowed to do so”.
Some PEC members, who asked to remain anonymous, said they were disbanded for supporting the call for Zuma’s removal and their stance against holding an early ANC elective conference.
However, Lungisa said one of the reasons given to them by the NEC was that the league had failed to host various projects in honour of OR Tambo in October last year.
Another reason was that they had failed to hold PEC meetings in recent months. He said these “reasons” were unjustified.
“We feel that there are things not related to youth development which had forced them to disband us,” said Lungisa.
The call to dissolve the Eastern Cape youth league PEC and their counterparts in the Greater Johannesburg region was endorsed after the league’s NEC met over the weekend.
It comes after both structures recently broke ranks with their mother body over calls for Zuma’s removal and the holding of an early elective conference by the ANC.
The current Eastern Cape structure is the fourth ANC Youth League executive in the province to be disbanded by the league’s mother body since 2006. — asandan@dispatch.co.za
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