The ANC is facing yet another headache as a group of ANCYL members from all nine provinces were now heading to court in an attempt to wrestle back control of the league.
A poster from the youth league in the Fezile Dabi region promises to teach attendants basic military training, hiking, gun handling, guerilla tactics and political education.
Political parties have expressed their unhappiness about not being able to respond to what the president says when President Ramaphosa unveils the plan during this afternoon’s joint sitting of Parliament.
The politician could not be named to protect the girls’ identities. He appeared at the Nelspruit Magistrates Court on Wednesday.
Vusi Msimang told Eyewitness News that the association, unlike other structures of the ANC, had no status and should not even have an office at the ANC’s Luthuli House headquarters.
Angelo Agrizzi has been charged in relation to bribes of R800,000 which were paid to former African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament Vincent Smith, whose case was postponed to 3 December.
Former President Kgalema Motlanthe, in response to this week’s clash on social media between Minister Fikile Mbalula and the Umkhonto We Sizwe Military Veterans Associations, said that such incidents were just heated but gave no clarity.
The ANC secretary-general met with disgruntled members of the veterans association on Tuesday.
State prosecutors told the court on Wednesday they had experienced difficulties with accessing their offices due to COVID-19, and they had not shared critical documents with Smith’s lawyers.
Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula took to the social media platform on Monday where he attacked Magashule, and Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) leaders and supporters of the former President Jacob Zuma.
Delivering his alternative economic recovery plan, Herman Mashaba said that the African National Congress (ANC)-led alliance movement had given trade unions more power than any other stakeholders in the country’s economy.
Fikile Mbalula went on a Twitter rant on Monday, describing both the MKMVA president and its spokesperson Carl Niehaus as 'suspected criminals'.
The association planned to hand over a memorandum to both the ANC and to Gauteng Premier David Makhura’s office.
The DA on Monday wrote to Treasury to determine whether the Finance Minister Tito Mboweni consulted with Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula in terms of the Defence Act before she and the delegation left South Africa.
MKMVA president Kebby Maphatsoe and a grouping called the ANC Youth League crisis committee called for the arrests of farmers who went on the rampage in the Free State on Tuesday.
ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule told EWN he heard of a warrant against him being signed by a Bloemfontein court relating to millions of rand spent on the failed Estina dairy farm project that left black farmers destitute.
In an unprecedented move, General Solly Shoke released a media statement warning SANDF members against attending meetings to discuss ANC issues.
A report from the provincial Treasury, seen by Eyewitness News, recommended that the executive invoke Section 139.
