Officials are accused of manipulating branch general meetings to ensure victory for their preferred candidates
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Sources in the youth league said the young lions were being used to disrupt branch meetings, including one held at Meadowlands in Soweto last Saturday at which one member was allegedly held hostage. The source said this has brought serious debate about the integrity of the congress and the renewal process in the youth league.
“We are going to a conference of the ANC in 2025 and the youth league has a certain percentage of voting rights in the conference so they will use those numbers to benefit them,’ the source said. The source said it was difficult to report issues because they had to submit their grievances to the same people they are complaining about. “Obviously it will be rendered useless.”
“If you want to collapse a congress, you go for the head,” Mashele. “There’s nothing untoward. We are expecting it but we are dealing with it organisationally. “It’s only a few incidents out of a total of about 480 branches we have launched, but we are dealing with this because we don’t take kindly to this. In most cases it’s about their local issues.”said branches could raise disputes about the process and that the conference would not sit until these had been resolved.
He said violence was being caused by “old people who wanted to put their fingers in things of the youth league”.
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