Former ANCYL Official Rips Into Replacement Task Team

Andile Lungisa, Vice-President of the African National Congress Youth League in the Republic of South Africa at a press briefing in Pretoria. Lungisa recently wrote an article on the political situation in Haiti., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.

Sep 4 2013 10:37PM

Lungisa rips into ANCYL task team

Former member of the national executive committee (NEC) of the ANC Youth League, Andile Lungisa, launched a blistering attack on the national task team (NTT) of the league

WARREN MABONA
New Age, South Africa

Former member of the national executive committee (NEC) of the ANC Youth League, Andile Lungisa, launched a blistering attack on the national task team (NTT) of the league.

Lungisa, who was part of the league’s NEC that was disbanded by the ANC in March, described the task team as a “useless structure with no experience”.

He urged the ANC to remove the NTT members from the league as a “matter of urgency” and claimed they had failed to rebuild the league. The NTT was appointed in April.

“They (NTT) are a useless structure and lack experience. They are not too slow and not even too fast,” Lungisa told The New Age. He said the biggest flaw of the NTT in executing its mandate appeared when the interim leadership disbanded four provincial executive committees of the ANCYL and some regions.

“The NTT will create chaos in the league. Yes, I smell chaos and the ANC has to put people with experience in the NTT,” he said.

He accused members of the NTT of having drafted their names “deliberately into the ANCYL’s 2014 election nomination list with the aim of securing seats in Parliament”.

“They put themselves on the list because they wanted to become MPs. They were never even elected to the NTT but appointed and are not doing what they were appointed to do,” he said.

Lungisa, who is a former chairperson of the National Youth Development Agency now sits on the provincial executive committee (PEC) of the ANC in Eastern Cape, a position he said he enjoyed because it afforded him to be of service to the people of his home province. The league is expected to hold its national conference after next year’s elections. Lungisa is known for his ambitions to be become president of the league.

“I am still within the age limit to become the league president but let’s wait and see what will happen,” he said.

NTT convenor Mzwandile Masina declined to comment