The exclusion of ANCYL presidential hopeful Aphiwe Mkhangelwa has raised more questions than answers.
One of those expected to stand for the presidency, Aphiwe Mkhangelwa from the Chris Hani region in the Eastern Cape, said it was shocking how the ANC leadership was resolving the problems faced by the youth league.
Mkhangelwa said if things continued in this manner, the preferred slate would emerge from the conference.
“I have been nominated by 34 branches according to the elections where I am leading 114 branches which are not divided and you can’t make sense of that,” he said.
“You have an audit process that took place and one final audit that was released without corrections and that alone handicaps branches to participate.
“I am the regional chair in the Chris Hani region, we have 114 branches and, in the audit, they only passed 53 branches.
“The reason the others did not pass is because they are saying they are less than 100 members, but all our branch files say they are more than 100.”
He said a congress which was supposed to be constituted of over 4 200 branches could not be constituted by only close to 2 000 branches.
“When you do such things, people become demoralised because they know we are out of the race, not because we did not have capacity but because we were not favoured by a certain group that is in charge of the machinery that must deliver us,” he said.
“We are saying the ANC leadership should give us space to go through the processes we have to go through to have a successful congress.
“They must only be interested in young people participating in fair processes of the youth league and that’s what we are asking of them.”
He said despite being disadvantaged before the start of the congress, he would not approach the courts.
The youth league has been seen as an irrelevant structure of the ANC following the departure of ANCYL president and now Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema.
Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/politics/ancyl-does-not-have-bite/
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