"This incident must be seen within the context of a dangerous pattern that has been emerging.. in which many members of the youth league have begun to display tendencies alien to our movement's history"

ANC Western Cape chairman Marius Fransman has launched a stinging attack on the ANC Youth League in the province, accusing it of planning and orchestrating the booing of President Jacob Zuma at an ANC centenary last month.

Fransman went on the attack at a closed provincial executive committee meeting on Saturday and effectively laid the blame for the disruption of the event squarely at the youth league's door.

In his political input Fransman described the disruption as orchestrated by what he termed "a coalition of the aggrieved" that has placed personal agendas above the interests of the ANC.

"This incident is not an isolated case and must be seen within the context of a dangerous pattern that has been emerging over the past five years in which many members of the youth league have begun to display similar tendencies alien to our movement's 100-year history and the youth league's own proud history," Fransman said.

Zuma received a hostile reception at the Good Hope Centre in Cape Town late last month when he delivered a centenary lecture in honour of the ruling party's second president, Sefako Makgatho.

A scuffle broke out and an SABC cameraman was injured when a chair was hurled at him.

Fransman warned that the incident would further weaken the ANC in its attempt to unseat the ruling DA.

Fransman took over the ANC in the province on the back of a youth league-backed coalition formed to prevent strongman Mcebisi Skwatsha from regaining control of the ruling party in the Western Cape.