ANCYL team hits back after local region is disbanded
THE ANC Youth League’s Dullah Omar Regional Task Team is unhappy about the disbandment of the Dullah Omar region and has asked the party’s national leadership to intervene.
On Monday, the party’s provincial executive committee (PEC) announced the disbandment. At a press conference yesterday, the ANCYL said it had sent the letter to Luthuli House outlining their unhappiness. ANCYL regional co-ordinator Roscoe Jacobs said they wanted the decision rescinded.
“We are also asking that NEC members be deployed in the Western Cape to give guidance as the PEC has failed to do so.”
Luzuko Bashman, regional spokesperson for the team, said: “We have taken a unanimous decision to challenge and fight the ANC Western Cape PEC’s factional, unconstitutional and destructive decision. The Dullah Omar Regional Executive Committee (REC) has put other RECs under administration a few days before the national policy conference where we are expected to be uniting on policy proposals.
“We have resolved to engage the ANC Women’s League and our ANCYL PEC to mobilise all regions to fight against those hell-bent on killing our ANC. We shall join five of the six regions in their fight to rid this province of a corrupt and factional PEC.
“To date, branches have not even received the PEC decision officially through their branch secretaries but heard through the media which further exposes an extreme lack of understanding regarding internal organisational processes.
“Instead, members, supporters and everyone else who wants to attend are invited to some meeting or rally to communicate PEC decisions.”
Lionel Adendorf, chairperson of the ANC PEC committee for media and communication, said yesterday that he was not going to comment on the statements made by the league at the press conference.
On Sunday, three other regions held press conferences in which they lambasted the disbandment.
Faiez Jacobs, Western Cape ANC provincial secretary, said: “At a PEC meeting held on June 24, a decision was taken to dissolve the Dullah Omar district. It is a cause of concern that the Dullah Omar region which constitutes more than 70% of the total eligible voters of the Western Cape and the ANC, received only 24.5% of the Cape Town vote yet it only constitutes 37.2% of the ANC membership.
“The unauthorised press conference and statements by a minority of members of the Western Cape ANC PEC and regional executive members is regrettable and goes against the constitution of the ANC, its policies, its values and its practice.
“While there was a debate and disagreement from a minority of PEC members, the majority were behind the decision to disband the Dullah Omar region. The reasons were given in a report to the PEC and will be communicated to ANC HQ and the NEC.
“The allegations and accusations made by members of the PEC and some of the RECs are without any basis. The behaviour of these members has been divisive since the provincial congress of 2015.”
THE MAJORITY WERE BEHIND THE DECISION TO DISBAND THE DULLAH OMAR REGION