The ANC Youth League (ANCYL) could not confirm a report on Sunday that it owed creditors R50 million, saying only that it owed “a lot of money”.
“Everybody has been quoting a figure, we are still verifying how much the ANCYL owes,” spokesman Bandile Masuku said.
“The figure could be less [than R50 million] or more.”
He was reacting to a report in the Sunday Times that the organisation was R50m in the red, and struggling to run its affairs efficiently.
Masuku said the league was still receiving requests for payments. The organisation was making a plan to pay its creditors.
“The organisation has been plagued by financial problems for some time now. Our task is to get all resources together and settle with creditors,” he said.
The amounts owed included R15m to the company University Events Management, for services rendered during the league’s 2008 national conference in Bloemfontein; and an undisclosed amount to Gallagher Estate, Midrand, for the 2011 national congress, according to the Sunday Times.
It also had a R270,000 legal bill, relating to the case of the league’s former spokesman Floyd Shivambu calling a journalist a drunkard. – Sapa
Julius Malema has considered taking legal action over a scathing attack on him by the ANC’s Gauteng chairperson Lebongang Maile.
At the press conference on Tuesday, the ANC Youth League’s Gauteng chairperson, Lebogang Maile, blamed the league’s former president, Julius Malema, for the youth league’s financial problems.
“Where is the money of the ANC Youth League? The ANC Youth League owes [creditors] more than R50-million.”
He also accused Malema of being a “drunkard and a womaniser”.
Malema said he planned to sue Maile, as his veiled allegation that Malema embezzled youth league funds bordered on defamation.
He demanded that Maile retract the statement and apologise, and denied that he was a womaniser.
“I am not a womaniser; I am a 32-year-old man with one child. I do not have a girlfriend,” he was quoted as telling the newspaper.
“Maile is 33-years old or more with no less than six children. He is expecting twins as we speak.” – Sapa
Expelled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema is preparing the ground to form a new political party.
The organisation will advocate a radical policy shift in favour of black South Africans.
The Star can reveal that Malema is consulting his supporters with a view to establishing a movement that will “restore the dignity of blacks” and reduce inequality between rich and poor.
In an exclusive interview with the paper on Sunday, the firebrand said the envisaged “forum” would fight for social justice rather than reconciliation and resume an “onslaught against white male monopoly capital”.
It would push for the expropriation of land without compensation and nationalisation of the country’s mines, and force the beneficiaries of apartheid to be remorseful “and behave in a manner that says they regret their conduct”.
Malema has ruled out the possibility of joining other parties – including Agang and the DA – saying he did not agree with their policies.
The Star has also learnt that an intelligence report handed over to President Jacob Zuma last year has warned that Malema planned to establish a party.
Malema implored the youth to revolt against the current state of affairs in the ANC and the country.
He accused Zuma of dictatorship, undermining internal democracy in the ANC and of presiding over a country that was deteriorating politically and economically.
He said a probe that cleared Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa of wrong-doing after it emerged that the police’s slush fund was used to build a wall around his private house was just one example.
Malema said that after watching these developments, he had decided to organise “radical militants” in and outside the ANC “to come together and talk about an alternative platform”.
“We need a party that demands justice in this country, that will say we need the land that was taken from our people and we are not going to pay for it. A party that will say those who were victims of apartheid stand to benefit unashamedly and those who perpetuated apartheid must show remorse and behave in a manner that says they regret their conduct,” Malema said.
“When they were arguing for our expulsion and suspension, they said we did not show remorse, but when Kabelo goes and says ‘we will work with the new leadership’, they still cut off his head. Even Ronald Lamola, after making a long trip to Nkandla after Mangaung to pledge the youth league’s support, they still kicked him out.
“The Limpopo provincial executive committee under Soviet Lekganyane released a statement insulting me for political expediency… that still did not spare them.”
Malema added that the rule of law had collapsed because state organs like Sars and the Hawks were “loyal to individuals and not institutions”.
The two agencies are probing Malema for alleged tender corruption. His house and other assets have been auctioned off to pay off a R16 million debt owed to Sars. – iol.co.za
The High Court in Johannesburg will hear a liquidation application against the ANC Youth League on Friday.
Phil Patlanski, a lawyer for Z2 Presentations CC, which brought the application, said on Thursday the matter was expected to be heard on Friday morning.
The close corporation trades as University Events Management (UEM).
The application came after the African National Congress Youth League failed to pay almost R15 million, including interest, to the contractor for its national congress in Mangaung in the Free State in 2008, when Julius Malema was elected leader.
The sheriff reportedly twice tried to seize youth league assets to pay off the debt, but there were no assets.
On Wednesday, in an answering affidavit filed at the court for the youth league, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said it was a matter of record that the league’s affairs were “shambolic and chaotic”.
“The respondent at present has no disposable assets and its operations, which are currently limited to auditing its membership and restructuring the chaos, are being funded by the ANC,” Mantashe said.
In his affidavit Mantashe said the cost of collecting and administering the annual ANCYL membership fee of R12 exceeded that amount. He said the league was not a commercial business and did not operate for profit.
“The respondent, as set out in its constitution, is a voluntary association of persons with the object of pursuing and furthering the ideals of democracy, freedom, and peace through political processes.
“At present the only goodwill it has is of a political nature and not a commercial nature, and this cannot be sold for money,” Mantashe said.
He argued that the Companies Act would not apply to the ANCYL.
The ANC had made some payments to the contractor, but Mantashe said the party was a separate entity from the league,
The ANC had made the payments because its youth wing did not have the funds. However, the ANC had no obligation to take steps to pay the debt, he said.
UEM’s lawyers argue the Insolvency Act applies to the case. In their heads of argument the lawyers say the ANCYL’s affairs could be wound up in accordance with the act.
“The respondent has committed acts of insolvency and is unable to pay its debts as envisaged in section eight of the Insolvency Act,” they say.
A trustee needed to be appointed to establish where the ANCYL’s assets were, since it was an organisation with numerous members who paid annual fees, and it received donations.
Mantashe said appointing a liquidator or a trustee would not gain anything and only be a cost to creditors, as the ANCYL had no assets and no money in its bank account.
“Any investigation by a liquidator or trustee would be at the expense of creditors… As there is no business there is no suggestion of any hidden assets or profits which might be uncovered,” he said.
UEM’s lawyers said it was untenable that the league could be found to be “contracting with the world at large giving out the appearance of legitimacy” when it claimed it had no assets.
“A trustee will be able to investigate this and establish the correctness or falsity of the assertions made.”
They argued Mantashe was not authorised to speak on behalf of the ANCYL because he was not one of its office bearers. They would ask the court to dismiss Mantashe’s arguments in his answering affidavit.
Mantashe asked that the application be dismissed with costs. – Sapa
Lungisa, second from left, next to fallen hero Malema
The president of the Pan-African Youth Union, Andile Lungisa, believes President Robert Mugabe’s land reform policy in Zimbabwe should serve as a blueprint for South Africa.
Lungisa was among those who attended Mugabe’s $600000 birthday bash in the small mining town of Bindura.
Lungisa wasthe former deputy president of the ANC Youth League.
Taking to the podium to address the 50000-strong crowd, Lungisa said: “We are saying in South Africa and the whole of Africa, we should emulate Zimbabwe.”
Lungisa was invited by Zanu-PF’s youth wing alongside other youth leaders from regional liberation front movements.
Under Mugabe’s land reform policy, roughly 4000 white farmers had their land seized without compensation . At present, there are less than 300 white commercial farmers still operating, but their land remains targeted.
Farmers who resist eviction face at least two years’ imprisonment.
It is widely believed that Mugabe’s land reform policy resulted in his nation’s economic ruin, and severe lack of food security. “We are saying in South Africa and the whole of Africa, we should emulate Zimbabwe,” Lungisa added.
Pedzisai Ruhanya, the former news editor of the banned Zimbabwean independent newspaper Daily News, said Lungisa’s comments amounted to mere politicking in a bid to impress Mugabe.
“The ANC exists in a very active community not as passive as Zimbabwe. So to take the same position as Zanu-PF is impossible in South Africa.”
A few days before the birthday bash, the 12-year-old son of a member of one of the two MDC factions was killed in an arson attack.
Some have alleged that one of Mugabe’s close allies was responsible for the attack.
“Even when [someone] gets killed by a cow; they blame it on Zanu-PF,” Mugabe said. – timeslive.co.za
A few years ago, the ANC made a huge blunder in electing Jacob Zuma as President of the ANC in December 2007. Ironically, the re-election of President Thabo Mbeki in the same Conference would have been a huge blunder, portraying an incapable ANC that cannot outgrow its individual leaders. This is an unfortunate part of politics where it happens that both sides of political options are disastrous.
Now, Polokwane bred a disaster in Jacob Zuma who despite his literary incapabilities, has very low or non-existent moral standards, and obsessed with enrichment of his family members and household. An expectation was somewhat developed towards Polokwane that the election of Jacob Zuma will lead to discontinuation of rabid presidentialism and the ANC will be taken to the people. It was not to be so judging by the many individually inspired blunders committed by the sitting President both as ANC President and President of the Republic of South Africa.
Election of Jacob Zuma in the 53rd National Conference of the ANC will be the biggest blunder the ANC would have made in its history because it is going to lead to massive electoral support decline of the ANC. Majority of the people will lose confidence on the capacity of the ANC to create conditions for betterment of their lives and govern society effectively. The ANC should never elect Zuma, despite efforts to co-ordinate tribal support in KwaZulu Natal.
Between January and August 2012, the membership of the ANC in KwaZulu Natal grew by more than 100 000, actually more than 36% growth, meaning that KZN delegates will have mandates from unseasoned members on what should be the direction of the ANC. The membership growth had nothing to do with organisational development and growth, but the tribal need to defend a fellow Zulu speaking individual who has failed to provide leadership to the ANC.
What this means is that a tribal regiment has been mobilized as voting fodder to defend and protect President Zuma. Under real circumstances, there can never be a straight thinking individual without tribal prejudices, and without expectation to be defended from corrupt practices, and without legitimate expectation of being recipient of State and government patronage who will support the re-election of President Zuma as President of the ANC, and subsequently as President of South Africa until 2019.
If in their wisdom, ANC members believe and think that the re-election of President Zuma is the right thing to do, then the ANC would have lost its moral compass and total wrong. It will mean that the people of South Africa will be justified to lose confidence in the ANC.
Jacob Zuma is a corrupt leader who encourages corruption of self-enrichment. We can all appreciate that the Courts of law have not yet decided on his impending guilty verdict, and it does not need rocket science to know and notice that any competitive and fair court of law will find him guilty of corruption. The biggest corruption however is that Jacob Zuma will cost the South African government more than R1 billion on his three official residences, many wives who are subsidized by the State, and now recently the expansion of his private residence in Nkandla and the roads leading towards there.
A R1 billion can do a lot in the eradication of informal settlements and bettering of living conditions of many fronts. Zuma is a liability to the ANC, to the country and to the image of Africans the world over. He must be stopped sooner than later and held accountable for his corruption, fraud and money laundering.
The wisdom or lack of it on the President’s side led to first, militarization of the Police, second, destabilization of its leadership through unexplainable release of Police Commissioner Bheki Cele, and appointment of an inexperienced and Security cluster novice police commissioner Riya Phiyega.
The mishandling of the mass wage protests in Marikana in August this year, which led to the massacre was as a result of the directionlessness of the police and lack of experienced leadership. The Police Commissioner is on record of justifying the Marikana massacre claiming that the police were defending themselves, whilst they conspicuously resorted to cold-blooded killing of protestors after failing to arrest all of them for withdrawing their labour from the Mines.
The reason why the Mines protests happened in the first place is a reflection of lack of leadership at the highest level of the State and government. As a territory with mineral resources endowments, the leadership of South Africa have a permanent obligation to ensure that the people of South Africa, not Mine bosses, derive maximum benefits through salaries and decent human settlements from the extraction of Mineral resources.
The Zuma led government does and has never even pretended to care about the well-being of the people and Mineworkers, the government has instead arrested thousands of mineworkers, injured and killed some of them and recurrently assured Mine bosses that they are safe and should not panic. President Zuma went to the extent of deploying the military to intimidate mineworkers and those who associate with them from pursuing a national protest action against Mine bosses. South Africa has degenerated into a Security State due to the insecurities of President Jacob Zuma.
Offered an opportunity to provide political and ideological leadership to the ANC, President Zuma dismally failed and instead gave a pathetic characterization of the ANC struggles as second transition, which in all intents and purposes deviates from the core values and mission of the ANC to achieve Freedom Charter objectives.
Members of the ANC had to re-educate President Zuma in the Policy Conference that our struggle cannot be characterized as second transition because the first transition towards attainment of Freedom Charter objectives has not been fulfilled. In the ANC, inability of a sitting President to provide political and ideological leadership is treacherous. There is not even a single new idea or intervention provided by President Zuma that has taken the country forward, and yet he still want re-election for another 5 years.
Re-election of Jacob Zuma will not only cause massive and irreparable divisions in the ANC, it will isolate a significant number of voters in the 2014 general elections, most of whom will stay away for fear of voting for a white dominated party and some who will guarantee the opposition increased majority and representation in the National Assembly and Provincial Legislations.
This is an absolute fact and ANC structures and members should in a uniting fashion avoid repeating the mistakes made in the 52nd National Conference of electing a leader who is only concerned about his personal and private family’s upliftment, whilst not offering any durable, sound and sustainable solutions to South Africa’s crisis of unemployment, poverty and inequalities. We cannot afford to repeat mistakes.
Axed ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema believes bloodshed will help him get South Africa’s land and mineral resources, according to a report on Tuesday.
Malema was in Harare on Saturday to attend a wedding ceremony and address Zanu-PF youth, the Zimbabwe Herald reported.
He said the youths in South Africa were calling for whites to surrender land and minerals resources they hold because “when they came from Europe they did not carry any land into South Africa”.
“What we are asking is for them to surrender our minerals because they did not come with any mineral. We want that land and those minerals for free because they never paid for those minerals.”
Malema said whites committed murder to get land.
“Actually they killed people to get that land and those minerals. We are not going to give them money when we take the land back because it will be like we are thanking them with money for killing our people.
“We will never do that, little did they know that we are not scared of blood. We are scared of defeat. We don’t want to be defeated but seeing blood is not what we are scared of as long as that blood delivers what belongs to us we are prepared to go to that extent.”
Malema told the youth he was in Zimbabwe to gain inspiration and wisdom, so that when he returned home he could “double the spirit of fighting against imperialist forces”.
He said Zimbabwe was an inspiration to Africa, in that it is now wholly independent and has divested itself of external control.
Malema faces a money-laundering charge relating to a R52m tender awarded to On-Point engineers, which he allegedly benefited from. – Sapa
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe is the ANC Youth League’s choice for the position of ANC president, it said on Wednesday.
It would nominate him for this post at the African National Congress’s elective conference in Mangaung in December, ANCYL spokeswoman Khusela Sangoni-Khawe said in a statement.
“We are calling on all our structures and ANC branches… to ensure that our generational (sic) mission is fulfilled and that… tried, tested and competent comrades are elected.”
The ANCYL’s candidate for ANC secretary general was former ANCYL leader Fikile Mbalula, and for deputy president ANC treasurer Mathews Phosa or Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale. Sexwale could also be nominated as treasurer general.
The names of North West Premier Thandi Modise, Arts and Culture Minister Paul Mashatile, and former ANC deputy secretary general Thenjiwe Mtitso were also put forward.
Sangoni-Khawe said: “Primarily, the kind of political leadership that we need is leadership that adheres to our political programme for economic freedom in our lifetime.”
The next leadership needed to take a firm stand on economic policy to realise the Freedom Charter.
“What scares any investor is not nationalisation of mines or expropriation of land without compensation, but an endless discussion on the aforementioned.”
A leader needed the ability to inspire people and reinforce confidence in the ANC and transformation.
In the run-up to the elective conference in December, the party needed to take a stand against political violence and intimidation, she said.
“The ANC must act decisively to ensure that all comrades are afforded an opportunity to voice, without fear or favour, their preferences on leadership without the spectre of victimisation and even death hanging over them.” – Sapa
The ANC Youth League must not apologise for calling for economic freedom and the nationalisation of mines, ANC national executive member Fikile Mbalula said on Wednesday.
“You are the only ones [ANCYL] who have opened the debate,” Mbalula told students at Wits University in Johannesburg. He was speaking at the ANCYL’s 68th anniversary lecture.
“Some of us in the movement are even afraid to utter the words economic freedom in our lifetime. What you must do comrades is to deepen your understanding of economic freedom.
“It’s the song everyone must sing about. Even the left in this country, the Communist Party, Cosatu, [and] some of your comrades are afraid to say economic freedom.”
This was because it was associated with individuals, Mbalula said -referring to expelled ANCYL leader Julius Malema.
He told the youth league that freedom was about them.
“It is about total liberation and if you are not going to talk about it who else will? Why shouldn’t the youth be obsessed with economic power?”
Mbalula said ANCYL must be careful because when the “second revolution” came it could be hijacked by opportunists.
“They will take it and tear us apart and run with the economic struggle.”
ANCYL has been critical of the second transition which was proposed and debated at the African National Congress’ policy conference in June.
Mbalula said the second transition could not be reduced to freedom songs and leadership.
“If you start singing you’ll never understand the debate,” he said.
“A transition is not an event, it’s a process and a journey.” He was referring to songs in support of ANC leaders.
Members of the party supporting President Jacob Zuma would show two fingers indicating a second term, while others would show the soccer sign for a change over.
These songs and signs were killing the debate, said Mbalula.
Mbalula said the voice of reason was being suppressed by who could sing the loudest.
“The politics of today is reduced to the politics of freedom songs. That is why we don’t know what our future and vision is,” said Mbalula.
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He told the ANCYL not to allow the organisation to be suppressed.
“Think comrades… then you will find allies [in the ANC].”
The ANCYL must not be scared to say that they were unhappy with the leadership elected at the ANC’s elective conference in Polokwane in 2007.
Mbalula said Mangaung was going to be different to Polokwane.
In Polokwane the youth league was fighting for political change not economic freedom.
“Elect people [at Mangaung] and give them a programme of action… Tie them to that,” he said.
Mbalula received a rousing welcome from the ANCYL members at Wits University.
The students sang songs in support of him, deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe and Malema.
The ANCYL is calling for Mbalula to be elected the ruling party’s secretary-general at the elective conference in December. It is also calling for President Jacob Zuma to be replaced by Motlanthe.
Nominations for the ANC leadership was expected to open next month. – Sapa
As outspoken supporter of striking miners in South Africa, Julius Malema, appeared in court on corruption charges, mining giant AngloGold was forced to stop operations due to work stoppages.
Malema was formally charged with money laundering on Wednesday.
Supporters of the populist firebrand say the high-profile corruption case is politically motivated and is a means to silence the fierce critic of President Jacob Zuma.
“This case is an abuse of power by Zuma against Malema,” supporter Sonett Masemola told Reuters news agency outside the provincial magistrates’ court in Polokwane, 250 kilometers (220 miles) north Johannesburg.
Supporters say Malema is being brought to trial in a bid to sideline him from an African National Congress (ANC) leadership vote which is due to take place in December and in which Zuma is seeking re-election as party head.
Prosecutors allege Malema “improperly received” 4.2 million rand ($514,000 or 399,400 euros) in a conspiracy involving government tenders.
Police forces erected razor wire to block more than 1,000 of Malema’s supporters from gaining access to the court house.
Malema was granted bail after the 10 minute hearing. A further court date was not set.
Strikes roll on
Meanwhile, AngloGold Ashanti has been forced to halt all its operations in South Africa as most of its 35,000 strong mining workforce went on strike, a company spokesperson said on Wednesday.
The unlawful strike, which began last week with several thousand workers laying down tools, now includes “a large majority” of the company’s mining employees, a spokesperson for the world’s third largest gold producer told news agency dpa.
“The strike is affecting all our six mines,” said Alan Fine, adding that workers were yet to formally present their demands to management.
“Obviously we will engage with our workforce, but the wages are negotiated centrally at the level of the Chamber of Mines and we don’t intend to change that.” But, he said, Anglo Gold would be willing to discuss other demands with the miners.
Unrest across the country’s vital minerals sector has spread in recent weeks as workers’ demand higher wages after employees at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine were granted an 11-12 percent wage rise.
The industrial action at Lonmin, which lasted for six weeks, left 46 people dead. Thirty-five were shot by police forces.
Malema has expressed his support for the striking miners. – DW
The Polokwana Regional Court has allowed photographers and television cameras into the courtroom where expelled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema is appearing on Wednesday.
They were given permission to take pictures of Malema in the dock before proceedings, but were not allowed to record during proceedings.
The court was packed to capacity, with suspended ANCYL spokesman Floyd Shivambu and suspended secretary general Sindiso Magaqa in the public gallery with senior ANCYL members.
Malema is accused of money-laundering. The charge sheet lists him as accused number 10.
On Tuesday, four of his co-accused appeared in court and were granted R40,OOO bail each. They are accused of fraud, corruption and money-laundering, relating to a R52 million tender awarded to On Point Engineers. Four companies were also charged. – Sapa
Malema handed himself over to the Polokwane police on Wednesday morning, before his court appearance, reported SABC.
Hundreds of supporters rushed to Malema’s vehicle when he arrived at the police station.
One bench in the courtroom was set aside for journalists, and another for Malema’s family.
Roads leading to the court were closed on Wednesday and police were monitoring the situation.
There was barbed wire outside the court and police Nyalas were positioned in various places surrounding the court.
Scores of Malema supporters sang and danced outside the courthouse. The crowd was expected to swell as the day progressed. – Sapa
The ANC Youth League has condemned what it terms the use of state resources to settle political scores, in reference to charges brought against its former president Julius Malema.
“We were shocked by these developments as the warrant was timely executed to coincide with a long weekend,” the ANCYL said in a statement on Tuesday.
“This, in our view, was meant to ensure that he spends the whole weekend in jail.”
It also condemned leaks to the media regarding the arrest and a report prepared by Public Protector Thuli Madonsela.
“Such lack of restraint and conniving was meant to feed further into the court of public opinion that is in session in the media,” it said.
South Africa’s legal system upheld the presumption of innocence until proven guilty.
However, what had recently happened was not in line with this principle.
“The fact that even some ministers intimated knowledge of the charges points to political interference in the administration of justice and it must be condemned,” the ANCYL said.
State institutions should not be used to settle political scores.
The ANCYL trusted that the criminal justice system would carry out its work with integrity and credibility.
It had to be freed from political interference.
“All South Africans are called upon to defend the Constitution and the principle as contained in the Constitution that every individual is innocent until proven guilty.”
Malema’s lawyer said on Sunday a date and venue for his court appearance had not been confirmed.
“We have not received confirmation from authorities on a date or venue,” said Malema’s lawyer Nicqui Galaktiou.
City Press reported that Malema was to appear in the Polokwane Regional Court on Wednesday on fraud and money laundering charges.
The Sunday Times said he would appear with five other people and four companies.
However, Galaktiou said that “even though the media has been publishing all this information”, his camp did not even know what charges Malema might face.
“We do not have charges,” she said.
An arrest warrant was issued for Malema on Friday.
City Press reported that Malema faced charges of money laundering, corruption and fraud relating to his Ratanang Family Trust and its shareholding in On-Point Engineering, a company which allegedly made millions from Limpopo government tenders.
On Sunday, National Prosecuting Authority spokeswoman Bulelwa Makeke refused to comment on a possible court appearance.
“Until he appears in court, then we can talk about it,” she said.
Also on Sunday, City Press reported that Public Protector Thuli Madonsela had found that Malema made his millions from a fraudulent tender.
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Although Madonsela could not find evidence that Malema interfered in the tender process, she found that his Ratanang Family Trust benefited “improperly”, the newspaper reported.
This was according to a copy of Madonsela’s provisional report into the R52 million tender won by On-Point Engineers from the Limpopo roads and transport department.
Malema’s family trust was one of the two shareholders in On-Point.
The newspaper also reported, in another article, that the SA Revenue Service (Sars) had obtained a R16m judgment against Malema for unpaid taxes.
Sars spokesman Adrian Lackay confirmed that the judgment was obtained in the High Court in Pretoria on September 11.
He told the newspaper the amount included unpaid taxes, penalties and interest. – Sapa
Expelled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema will return to the organisation, league deputy president Ronald Lamola said on Monday.
“We still believe he is going to come back and we will raise this at conference,” Lamola told reporters in Johannesburg.
He was referring to the ANC’s elective conference, to be held in December.
Last month during an interview on the BBC’s World Service in London, Malema said his expulsion from the ANC would be automatically overturned when President Jacob Zuma was voted out of office in December.
He said his expulsion was being contested by African National Congress structures.
A group calling itself Friends of the Youth League was established shortly after Malema was expelled from the ruling party. It organises events around the country at which Malema can address his supporters.
ANCYL head of policy Abner Mosase distanced the ANCYL from the group.
“They are not our friends and we don’t take responsibility for them,” he said.
“We have no association with Friends of the Youth League.”
ANCYL spokeswoman Khusela Sangoni-Khawe said the league did not have regular contact with Malema.
“Comrade Julius speaks in his own capacity, but we do listen to what he says like we would listen to any citizen. [But] we won’t take accountability for him.” – SAPA
South Africa’s mines will be nationalised and land will be expropriated, ANC Youth League deputy president Ronald Lamola said on Monday.
“Leadership of the ANC might be afraid to say ‘nationalisation’ and ‘expropriation of land without compensation’, but the policy conference has clearly demonstrated the power and the mobility of the young lions,” Lamola said in Johannesburg.
“The policy conference [of the ANC held in June] had unanimously, clearly stated that the strategic mines of South Africa must be nationalised for the benefit of all South Africans.”
Lamola was reporting back on the ANC’s policy conference, the role of the youth league, and reflecting on former president Nelson Mandela’s contribution to the struggle.
“Comrades, we have won the debate on nationalisation,” he told the league’s Dr Mxolisi Majombozi branch at the University of the Witwatersrand.
“Even the African National Congress… they say we are at the point where we must look in terms of which minerals to nationalise.”
Lamola urged young professionals to play their part by suggesting which minerals needed to be placed in the state’s hands as part of the fight for “economic freedom”.
“We have stated with this opportunity that has been given to us that we must now identify strategic minerals to be nationalised,” he told the cheering crowd.
He said land should be given back to its rightful owners.
“The police conference has also stated clearly that the expropriation of illegally taken land by the Boers and the British colonies must be expropriated without compensation,” Lamola added.
“[We] should thank branches of the ANC that they have now taken it upon themselves to fight for economic freedom.”
Lamola said the Youth League should defend its views and ensure these were made policy at the ANC’s elective conference, to be held in Mangaung in December.
Earlier on Monday, ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe rejected wholesale nationalisation.
“Wholesale nationalisation is not an option, it’s costly it’s unsustainable.”
The party did however support state intervention in the economy. – SAPA
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The ANC Youth League (ANCYL) could not confirm a report on Sunday that it owed creditors R50 million, saying only that it owed “a lot of money”.
