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The Limpopo ANC Youth League has echoed calls by Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal for early elective conferences amid allegations of corruption, expired terms of office, lack of leadership and deepening factional battles in some ANC regions and provinces.

The league in the Vhembe region of Limpopo has accused its regional leadership of sleeping on the job.

It called on the provincial and the national leadership of the ANC, together with the National Coronavirus Command Council, to ease some of the lockdown restrictions to allow the elective conferences to take place.

“The quietness of President Cyril Ramaphosa and the National Coronavirus Command Council on elective conferences creates instability in many regions,” member of the executive committee in Collins Chabane, Raymond Hlungwani said yesterday.

“The National Coronavirus Command Council should understand that the country exists through political power. As much as beaches, churches, universities and pubs are opened, why can’t we get the same treatment,” he said.

Three regions, Sekhukhune, Norman Mashabane and Vhembe, were scheduled to hold their elective conferences last year until Covid-19 happened.

ANC provincial secretary Soviet Lekganyane said the call by the league is nefarious.

“The president of this country made it clear that all elective conferences should be postponed because no election is bigger than the lives of our people,” he said.

A similar call was made by the South African National Civic Organisation in Gauteng recently. It wanted premier David Makhura, who is also the provincial chair, to be fired. Makhura is accused of corruption.