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The ANC national youth task force has announced its intention to convene a national youth league conference just a day after being threatened with legal action for its legality.
In a statement released Monday, the task force (NYTT) said it intends to hold the ANC Youth League congress before the end of January next year.
“The NYTT has conducted a thorough analysis and deliberation and has decided that the national congress should be convened no later than the end of January 2021,” the NYTT said in a statement.
The provincial and regional structures of the league have been given until the end of November to present their membership.
Yesterday, a group called the ANCYL crisis committee threatened the NYTT with legal action, questioning the legality of the structure called “the nursing home.”
Former league presidents, including Malusi Gigaba and Fikile Mbalula, are part of the task force. The crisis committee said it wanted the dissolution of the “purposeless group of elders disguised as youth leaders” as it was incompatible with the ANCYL constitution that gives its members powers to administer the league.
He said he would serve the ANC with an injunction on November 6. ANCYL’s National Executive Committee (NEC) was dissolved in July 2019 and the task force was subsequently appointed to oversee the operation of the league and convene an elective congress as a matter of urgency.
However, 15 months later the NYTT has still not been able to organize the congress. Initially, the NYTT had assigned May to hold the congress, but she was unable to move forward due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The NYTT said it was committed to reviving the youth league that has been on a downward spiral since the expulsion of its former leader and now EFF leader Julius Malema.
Under Collen Maine, the league failed to gain prominence with the nation’s youth until its NEC was dissolved and the NYTT was appointed to take over.
It was not immediately clear whether the crisis committee would proceed with its legal action after the announcement of the intention to finally hold the congress.
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