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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

Bheki Mtolo. (File photo)

Renewed calls to remove ANC’s Bheki Mtolo as party leaders considers its future in KwaZulu-Natal

The ANC Youth League says the provincial secretary caused divisions that led to the party’s electoral setbacks

Servant leader: Oscar Mabuyane says he has done all he can for the
Eastern Cape. Photo: Oupa Nkosi

Provincial leaders suspect foul play as Mabuyane appears fifth on the party list in race for premier

ANC Women’s League provincial chair Ntandokazi Capa is first on the list while Eastern Cape chairperson and premier Oscar Mabuyane’s position hangs in the balance

Mbalula: Don’t knock us

Ndabeni-Abrahams defended Mbalula’s ANCYL ‘unilateralism’

An effort to have the ANC secretary general account for his actions at the ANCYL conference was thwarted by his allies at a recent National Working Committee meeting

After much drama, Collen Malatji elected ANCYL president

Phumzile Mgcina was elected deputy president, Mntuwoxolo Ngudle as secretary general, Tsakani Shiviti as deputy secretary general and Zwelo Masilela as treasurer general.

ANC secretary general speaks to delegates at the ANCYL conference. Photo: Twitter

We will not tolerate anarchy, Mbalula tells ANCYL delegates

The ANC secretary general, who has been accused of interfering in the ANCYL conference, said he was not shaken by members calling for his head

The ANC Youth League is decrying party bigwigs, including secretary general Fikile Mbalula, meddling in its affairs. File photo

Butt out, Youth League tells ANC leaders

The league’s members say its elective conference has been delegitimised by interference

Luntu Sokutu. (@ANCECape/Twitter)

Mkhangelwa fit to lead ANCYL, not ‘lapdogs’, says new Eastern Cape chair

Luntu Sokutu has questioned the call for the Eastern Cape’s Mntuwoxolo Ngudle to get support for the youth league secretary general position

ANC Eastern Cape secretary Lulama Ngcukayitobi
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ANC Youth League defies Eastern Cape provincial secretary with Mbalula’s aid to elect new leaders

The provincial leadership accused the ANC provincial secretary of attempting to influence the outcomes of its conference

Thabile Mbili is said to be the daughter of an ANC activist and former municipal manager at the Ray Nkonyeni local municipality on the province’s south coast who is now the head of the provincial department of human settlements.

Godlimpi and Mkhangelwa in talks over ANCYL presidency

Youth league presidential contender Mkhangelwa accuses NEC member Mduduzi Manana of interfering in processes

Collen Malatji. File photo

ANC youth league presidential candidate lobbies for second  secretary general

Collen Malatji, who received an endorsement from Gauteng, is hoping to add more women to the league’s leadership

The ANC Youth League’s two biggest provinces — Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal — are in talks over a possible alliance ahead of the league’s much awaited elective conference in June.

Eastern Cape, KZN to form united block for ANC Youth League conference

The two biggest provinces in the league hope to take at least two positions in the top six when the structure sits for its conference in June

ANC Luthuli House in Pixley Ka Isaka Seme St, Johannesburg. Photo: Supplied

If ANCYL is serious about tackling SA’s energy crisis, they’ll join DA’s march to Luthuli House

Opportunity for honest, hardworking South Africans to take their pain and frustrations to the seat of the organisation that orchestrated them

The ANC Youth League will be moving backwards if it fails to produce a female leader, convenor Nonceba Mhlauli said. (Photo from MyANC/Twitter)

‘ANC Youth League must choose female leader’

ANCYL convenor Nonceba Mhlauli hints at her readiness for the youth league’s top position

I’ll fly Malema to Timbuktu, offers minister

An Eastern Cape minister has offered to pay for ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema to fly to Timbuktu until after the April elections.

Close Noord Street taxi rank, says ANC Youth League

The African National Congress (ANC) Youth League on Monday called for the immediate closure of Johannesburg’s Noord Street taxi rank after a second woman was assaulted.…

In league with sustainable cool

Members of the ANC Youth League can’t claim they didn’t anticipate the reaction they got when they announced their campaign to ban the selling of liquor on Sunday. Religious…

Who made it on to ANC’s working committee?

The ANC’s national executive committee elected its 28-member national working committee (NWC) on Monday. Get the complete list of NWC members here, as well as the names of the…

Arms deal: ANC works to avoid ‘thumb-suck’

The African National Congress (ANC) will appoint an ad-hoc committee to draw up a ”detailed factual report” on the arms deal, the party announced in Johannesburg on Tuesday. ”We…

Zuma charges: NPA denies political interference

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Tuesday denied that the decision to prosecute African National Congress president Jacob Zuma had been forced upon it by Zuma’s…