ANCYL to meet Winnie after appeal outcome

The ANC Youth League’s embattled leaders will visit ANC veteran Winnie Madikizela-Mandela after hearing the outcome of their appeal hearing today.

“The ANCYL will not hold any press briefing after the National Disciplinary Committee of Appeal (NDCA) verdict, but will instead wait for the guidance of structures of the ANCYL,” said spokesman Floyd Shivambu.

Earlier, Cyril Ramaphosa, who chairs the NDCA, said it would hold a media briefing at the ANC’s Luthuli House headquarters in the Johannesburg CBD on Saturday morning.

ANCYL president Julius Malema, deputy president Ronald Lamola, treasurer-general Pule Mabe, secretary-general Sindiso Magaqa, deputy secretary-general Kenetswe Mosenogi and Shivambu were suspended from the ANC last year.

A disciplinary committee found them guilty of sowing division within the ANC and of bringing the party into disrepute, partly as a result of comments made on bringing about regime change in Botswana.

On Friday, Shivambu said they would meet Madikizela-Mandela in Soweto at noon on Saturday. Arguing before the NDCA against the suspensions, they submitted that they had not been given a chance to argue in mitigation of their sentences.

If they lost the appeal, they could refer the matter to the ANC’s national executive committee, seek to have the elective conference in Mangaung review the suspensions, or head to the courts, said Malema’s advocate Patrick Mtshaulana.

 

- SAPA