No ANCYL elective conference yet

EASTERN Cape ANC Youth League convener Mziwonke Ndabeni yesterday dismissed rumours that the league would have an elective conference at the weekend.

Rumours had been doing the rounds on social media that it would be electing new leaders within days.

Ndabeni said they had targeted next month for their elective conference.

“We dismiss rumours that there is a provincial conference of the youth league this weekend as not true and we believe those rumours are perpetuated by mischievous people seeking to cause confusion.”

However, they might have to shelve the conference until next year.

ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe wrote to all provincial secretaries of the party and its leagues on September 5 saying: “We are now three months to the national conference.

“To ensure that there are no disruptions in this period, no provincial or regional conferences should be held beyond September 30.”

The same letter from Mantashe had threatened to derail the parent body’s provincial conference, but that is now set for next weekend despite pending litigation by two party members in the O R Tambo region.

The two want the court to declare the 2015 regional conference illegal, arguing that it had been proved that some “delegates” had been deceased at the time of the conference.

This case put into question the region’s participation in the provincial conference next week but, at Mond extended PEC meeting the decision was made to forge ahead regardless.

Ndabeni said they wanted to urgently hold the conference next month because the interim structure had been in place for more than the ANC’s constitutionally required three months. —