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ANC Youth League President Collen Malatji. Photo:  ANCYL

‘Convicted politicians’ cannot tell Ramaphosa to resign, Malatji says

ANC Youth League president Collen Malatji defends Cyril Ramaphosa, attacking Julius Malema and Jacob Zuma over calls for his resignation after the Phala Phala ruling

Themba Mathibe

Johannesburg Social Housing Company CEO granted R50 000 bail on money laundering charge

Police said there was a possibility of more arrests following that of Themba Mathibe on Monday

The leadership of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League at their 27th conference held at the University of Limpopo. Photo: Lunga Mzangwe

Collen Malatji re-elected uncontested as ANCYL president

Malatji’s slate was also not contested at the youth league’s 27th national congress

ANC Youth League outgoing leadership in Limpopo. Photo: Lunga Mzangwe

ANC Youth League claims credit for most of the party’s votes in 2024 elections

The league said most of the people who had voted for the party last year were young people

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula. (@MbalulaFikile/X)

Mbalula: Ramaphosa would have betrayed ANC members if he resigned because he is an asset 

The party’s secretary general admitted there were some in the national executive committee who wanted to see the president gone

KwaZulu-Natal premier Thami Ntuli.  Photo: Mbuso Kunene

KwaZulu-Natal coalition in jeopardy as MK party motion tests relations between ANC and IFP

Jacob Zuma’s party has submitted a motion of no confidence against premier Thamsanqa Ntuli of the Inkatha Freedom Party

The ANC’s historically legitimacy, the divided opposition, the proportional electorate system, and the lack of a broad-based party all contribute to its continued dominance Photo: File

ANC Youth League: A call for economic freedom in our lifetime

The league’s national general council must be a turning point, a radical reawakening

The ANC’s historically legitimacy, the divided opposition, the proportional electorate system, and the lack of a broad-based party all contribute to its continued dominance Photo: File

Noise over substance: The ANC Youth League is being strangled by slogans

Critical thinking is not anti-revolutionary and a return to intellectualism is vital for youth empowerment and national progress

Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi. (File photo)

Lesufi on Bela Act: Friday the 13th ‘liberation day’ for education

The Gauteng premier has called for the full Implementation of Bela Act despite threats of a court challenge by the Democratic Alliance and the Solidarity union

Democratic Alliance federal council chairperson Helen Zille. (Marco Longari/AFP)

Helen Zille is a ‘problem’ for the GNU and undermines John Steenhuisen as a leader, says ANCYL’s Collen Malatji

The ANCYL president says they will remove president Cyril Ramaphosa if things don’t improve

Fomer Justice Minister Thembi Simelane. (Photo by Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

ANC NEC to discuss strengthening step-aside guidelines, empowering integrity commission

Veterans league president Snuki Zikalala said if members ‘stepped on the toes’ of the integrity commission, there must be immediate consequences

ANC Youth League president Collen Malatji. Photo: @Collen_Malatji3/X

ANC Youth League leader Collen Malatji accuses SAPS of incompetence and criminal ties

He said police were not properly trained and criminals were not scared of them because they worked together

(John McCann/M&G)

The ANC’s internal cracks and the moonshot: What’s new?

South Africa’s news headlines suggest the opposition and the ANC are still struggling to get its act together

The newly elected ANC Veterans League leadership will focus on beefing up the governing party’s integrity and consequence management structures to ensure that only “the best” candidates make its parliamentary lists next year.

ANC veterans to focus on candidates’ integrity in election list process

Party stalwarts want the Zondo commission’s recommendations on the ANC to be implemented

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo Delwyn Verasamy, M&G)

Ramaphosa calls on ANC women to secure victory in the 2024 elections

The president wants women to push for 40% of government procurement for female entrepreneurs

(Delwyn Verasamy, M&G)

Editorial: Young people cut out of politics

With an election a year away and apathy among young voters endemic, the ANC youth delegates this weekend — and their counterparts in the other parties — will be well advised to…

Dirco spokesperson Chrispin Phiri. (@Chrispin_JPhiri/Twitter)

ANC Youth League wants government to change land programme to avoid creating ‘rural elite’

Chrispin Phiri has opted out of the league’s leadership contest but still hopes to influence the organisation through its national executive committee

Power on: Koeberg nuclear station. The ANC Youth League has supported the development of nuclear energy, identifying it as “critical to advance massive industrial development”. Photo: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg/Getty Images

ANC Youth League deems nuclear critical to industrialisation

A discussion document prepared for the youth league’s national congress weighs in on the ‘baseload’ debate

DA supporters march to Luthuli House to protest against the energy crisis South Africa is currently facing.  (Photo by Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

DA march ‘disrespects the ANC in its own home’, says ANC Youth League member

Youth league members prevented the Democratic Alliance from delivering its memorandum to Luthuli House, the ANC’s headquarter

Jordan Khush Ngubane was born near Ladysmith, in a small village called Nkwebebe, on 15 November 1917. In 1933. Photo: Supplied

Jordan Ngubane – forgotten founding member of the Congress Youth League

The politician and journalist was fluid in his politics but unswerving in his commitment to unity of African people and a non-racial society