Defiant ANCYL leader to reconvene Limpopo conference 13 April 2010
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Dethroned Limpopo provincial chairman of the ANC Youth League Lehlohonolo
Masoga insists he is still the provincial leader, despite the election of a
new chairman in a conference at the weekend.
"I am the chairman... the conference was adjourned and it continues this
weekend. I have not been replaced," he said on Tuesday.
"The provincial executive committee [PEC] reflected on the adjourned
conference and unanimously agreed that conference should be reconvened as a
matter of urgency and conclude its business just like we did with Mangaung
and Nasrec conferences that produced the current NEC [national executive
committee]."
He explained that the conference at Makhado near Louis Trichardt was
adjourned after some delegates started protesting and singing songs which
effectively affected the conference proceeding.
The delegates complained that the conference could not proceed while other
delegates were being accredited.
"When their view was dismissed on the basis that credentials were not
presented and their issue would be attended to at a later stage, the
affected delegates started protesting by singing songs..." he said.
He said before the provincial ANC chairman Cassel Mathale could speak, ANCYL
president Julius Malema took over the podium to address the conference and
ordered that the protesting delegates should be removed from the hall by
police.
"The delegates that constituted approximately half of the delegates left the
conference venue and whilst outside they were attacked by the police with
tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets."
"At that moment the president ordered for the removal of the security hired
by the provincial leadership and replaced it with a private security brought
by him...
"The conference was therefore adjourned in the light of the volatile
environment and failure of the registration team to conclude its work of
accrediting delegates and resolving outstanding disputes."
Frans Moswane was elected the new chairman of the youth league in the
province, unopposed after Masoga and his supporters who were unhappy about
the proceedings, left the conference venue.
Secretary general of the ANCYL Vuyiswa Tulelo said anyone who convened or
attended an illegal conference of the ANCYL would be violating the
organisation’s constitution and risked being expelled from it.
"Such conduct can only be remedied through expulsion, because there has
never been any formal communication or complaints from any of the branches
of the ANC Youth League in Limpopo."
She said those who were unhappy about the outcome of the provincial
conference should lodge their complaints with relevant structures.
Tulelo said the elective conference of the ANCYL in Limpopo proceeded
despite attempts "by the former PEC members to disrupt it".
She explained that provincial congresses of the ANCYL were convened and
presided by the National Executive Committee (NEC) and any gathering at a
provincial level that is convened outside the approval of the NEC was
tantamount to forming another organisation.
Sapa
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