Business Day
*ANC leadership to grill Malema on league turmoil* *Karima Brown, Business Day, Johannesburg, 6 July 2010 *THE top brass of the African National Congress (ANC) is meeting the leadership of the beleaguered ANC Youth League at the party’s Luthuli House headquarters today.
The gathering will bring youth league president Julius Malema face to face with ANC president Jacob Zuma , to whom Mr Malema will have to explain the state of the youth league.
The gathering comes at the behest of the youth league, which is facing an internal revolt linked to strife over a leadership tussle for control of the league.
The league has been dumped in an unprecedented crisis with rebel youth league leaders in Limpopo and the Eastern Cape threatening court action to resolve the troubles in their structures.
Mr Malema’s neutrality has been called into question in the ensuing battles in the Eastern Cape, where the provincial congress has been postponed several times.
The elective conference there has been pegged as a watershed event because it has become the site of contestation between forces linked to Mr Malema’s rival and deputy, Andile Lungisa.
The latter will be challenging Mr Malema for the league presidency next year when the organisation is scheduled to hold its elections.
The ANC Youth League’s national executive committee has disbanded the Eastern Cape leadership after the warring factions could not resolve their disputes to hold a conference.
Both sides alleged crookedness, saying that membership and delegates were manipulated to bolster the respective candidates .
Mr Malema will also have to explain to the ANC leadership why the league’s national leadership has been unable to provide direction on some of the issues and why at least three provinces have been placed under administration by the head office of the league.
It is understood that provincial leaders of the youth league want the ANC to deploy people who would oversee every aspect of elective conferences so as to avoid fraud.
Whatever the outcome of today’s discussions, Mr Malema’s grip on power in the youth league is slipping quickly, making him vulnerable. Already the youth league’s important national general council has had to be postponed, another indication that Mr Malema’s leadership is far from unassailable.
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