Newsletter| ANCYL secretary-general Njabulo Nzuza has revealed that the youth league had to knock on the doors of the ANC for financial aid after it found itself having to pay off some large debts – and the mother body helped it settle a R5 million debt
While countering calls to disband the league, its secretary-general admits to the mother body having helped it settle a R5m debt
“The last disbandment taught us a harsh lesson. It turned out to be a problem for the ANC. I am not saying that [former leader of the ANC Youth League] Julius Malema and his cohorts were correct or wrong, but we have learnt from that and I am hoping that the ANC will take the right decision,” Nzuza said, referring to the disbandment of the league’s leadership structures in 2013.
Some ANCYL members arrived at the NEC meeting, held this weekend in Pretoria, to hand over a memorandum outlining their demands.Said Nzuza: “I think it is time for a new generation [to take the lead]. We cannot be overstaying our welcome. Yes, we know it used to happen when leaders would be due for conference, and they would still carry on for another two years and so on. We don’t want that to happen with us, but external factors denied us an opportunity to do so.
“We were not even aware of some of the debts. In one instance, we owed the Passenger Rail Agency of SA as well. These leaders, elected in 2015, allegedly had the backing of a then powerful bloc in the ANC dubbed the premier league – a faction that comprised supporters of former president Jacob Zuma, which included current ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule.
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