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*ANCYL PEC takes national body to court* *Lynn Shaw, Dispatch, East London, 9 July 2010*ANC Youth League president Julius Malema was described as an "embarrassment to the country" during a battle in the Grahamstown High Court yesterday.
This came during an urgent application -- in which the Eastern Cape provincial executive committee (PEC) of the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) took the national ANCYL to court The provincial executive asked the court to interdict the national youth league from holding a congress in Grahamstown tomorrow, at which they plan to elect a new provincial leadership.
Justice Beshe will deliver a decision today.They further asked the court to set aside an earlier decision by the national youth league to disband the PEC.
The PEC accuse the national youth league of purposefully disbanding them in June in order to make sure that Malema was re- elected as president of the youth league for a second term.
According to court documents, the majority of the members of the PEC do not support Malema's re- election.
They labelled Malema an "embarrassment to most of the members of the PEC, the ANC and members of the broader republic of South Africa".
Legal representative of the PEC, advocate James Heunis, said the national executive council (NEC) of the youth league did not have the authority to disband the PEC nor the power to convene a provincial congress.
Advocate Richard Quinn, on behalf of the national youth league, said if one looked at the case, the parties were seeking relief against themselves because they were one organisation. According to the constitution, the youth league did have the power to oversee the provincial congress.
He asked that both applications by the PEC be dismissed. - By LYNN SHAW--- The Herald, Avusa Group News
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