Infighting among ANC Youth League members caused a two hour delay which prevented the convenor
of the ANC Youth League in King William’s Town from traveling to Grahamstown.
Infighting among ANC Youth League members caused a two hour delay which prevented the convenor
of the ANC Youth League in King William’s Town from traveling to Grahamstown.
While delivering a lecture in Noluthando Hall to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, ANC Youth League provincial chairperson Mlibo Qoboshiyane said that he had been delayed in King William’s Town where he was diffusing an altercation between the police and disgruntled Youth League members.
They were demanding that their branches be audited ahead of the party’s Amathole regional conference where new leaders will be elected.
Qoboshiyane alleged that some members had “run away” with the organisation’s files in an attempt to factionalise it.
He said the party’s branches are indeed being audited in preparation for the regional conferences which are scheduled to take place in March throughout the province.
Lungile Klaas, the ANC convenor in Makana, said the Cacadu regional conference will be held next month ahead of the provincial conference in April.
Qoboshiyane said he will not avail himself for re-election at the April conference because he has passed the youth age limit of 35 years.
“I have lead the league for so many years since starting high school in 1989, and now I’m handing over the baton over in peace,” he said.
He added that the provincial chapter of the National Youth Development Agency will be established in the Office of the Premier and that this was discussed during the ANC caucus in Parliament on the eve of the delivery of Premier Noxolo Kievits’s state-of-the-province address.
Qoboshiyane, who also heads the Legislature’s Local Government and Traditional Affairs portfolio committee, acknowledged that there are problems of financial mismanagement which are prevailing in most municipalities in the province.
“The turn around strategy should be implemented and more emphasis should be put on hiring competent people and not the deployment of unqualified cadres,” he said.
