Malema: Say no to ANC dictatorship
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Julius Malema. File photo: Bongiwe Mchunu Julius Malema. File photo: Bongiwe Mchunu
Johannesburg - Former ANC Youth League president Julius Malema says the decision to disband several structures is part of a deliberate plan to destroy his supporters because of “pure political jealousy, paranoia and fear of the unknown”.
He said the affected youths were being “squeezed” out of the ANC because they had disagreed with President Jacob Zuma in the run-up to the Mangaung conference.
This came after the ANCYL national task team (NTT) announced at a media briefing at the ANC’s Luthuli House headquarters in Joburg on Monday that it had disbanded the league’s Limpopo, Free State, North West, and Northern Cape provincial executive committees.
Mzwandile Masina, convener of the NTT, said the provincial executives in KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and the Western Cape were reconstituted as they were not constituted in line with prescripts of the ANCYL constitution and were generally weak.
But Malema said the youths were being purged for associating with him and being at the forefront of the struggle for “economic freedom in our lifetime”.
He urged the affected youths to revolt against “dictatorship” and resume their fight for social justice, nationalisation and the expropriation of land without compensation.
“The truth is, they have not done anything wrong. You look at them, you see Julius Malema. You’ve got this obsession with Julius Malema. Zuma is destroying the youth league of Nelson Mandela. Now they are destroying what he founded. They are destroying it because of pure political jealousy, paranoia and fear of the unknown. It can’t be.”
He called on the affected youth to revolt and “say to them enough is enough”.
“You either continue with the morality of our revolution, or else we will bring in an alternative.”
The Star