Arguments in mitigation of ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema’s suspension from the ruling party begin on Monday.
ANC spokesman Keith Khoza said proceedings would start on Monday, but could not confirm if they would be held at the party’s headquarters, Luthuli House in Johannesburg.
On Sunday, during a closed session of the ANCYL’s lekgotla, Malema told delegates he had received a letter from the committee informing him, league spokesman Floyd Shivambu and the league’s secretary general Sindiso Magaqa, that they had be at the mitigation proceedings on Monday at 8am. They were informed they would each have two hours to argue in mitigation of their sentences.
Last Saturday, the ANC’s disciplinary committee of appeals announced that attempts by Malema, Shivambu, Magaqa and three other ANCYL officials to have the guilty verdicts against them overturned were dismissed.
They were found guilty in November last year of bringing the ANC into disrepute and of sowing division in the party. – Sapa