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Malema, led by his legal team, will be appearing today before the ANC appeals committee chaired by Cyril Ramaphosa (pictured)

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The committee (NWC) met on Tuesday. Malema's recent suspension was discussed and the officials informed the meeting about why he could not attend.

Those who attended told Sowetan that although the matter was not on the agenda, some NWC members raised their concerns that they had endorsed Malema's presidency to 2014 before the recent suspension, and therefore the NEC has to ratify the decision.

Other leaders in support of Malema wanted the NWC to pronounce their support for him but they were defeated and the matter was referred to the NEC meeting on Sunday.

Sowetan also understands that secretary Sandiso Magaqa and spokesman Floyd Shivambu came under fire for attacking MKMVA and for saying Zuma will not be re-elected as ANC president in December respectively.

Although the matter was not pursued further, there was a view that the two needed to apologise.

But Shivambu yesterday said there was no disagreements in the NWC. He said they agreed that a way forward would be tabled before the NEC.

Malema, led by his legal team, will be appearing today before the ANC appeals committee chaired by Cyril Ramaphosa to make representations on why the body should set aside the disciplinary committee's decision to expel him from the ANC.

Malema's supporters in Limpopo will be put to the test next week when a faction that is behind him battle with his opponents during the league's elective conference.

A Malema faction is fighting to retain Jacob Lebogo as secretary of the province, while his detractors want him replaced with Eddie Maleka.

Maleka broke ranks after the Peter Mokaba region, which he served as secretary, was disbanded last year.

He has formed a pact with Boy Mamabolo, another friend-turned-foe of Malema, who is also chairman of the league in the Milo Malatji branch in Seshego.

Mamabolo has threatened to conduct a parallel conference following threats that they might not be allowed inside the conference venue.

"We are going to attend the conference of dictators, failing which we have a Plan B to conduct a parallel conference to elect our own leaders," Mamabolo vowed yesterday.

Lebogo said yesterday they were finalising preparations for the much-anticipated conference and hoped it would be "incident-free".

"We are currently holding meetings in all regions to deal with issues of pre-registrations and finalising certain logistics of the conference," said Lebogo.

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Thu May 23 01:09:01 SAST 2013 ::

Apr 12, 2012

truthhurt

Our YL president is not going anywhere, we elected him and we will decide when he should go, he has a mandate to remove butternut head from that warm chair, hell will break loose.
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Apr 12, 2012

Shredder

The unscrupulous and corrupt thugs who hijacked the ANC are at each other's throats.
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Apr 12, 2012

somaartakeit

@Truth.. and I shld hope that SAn youth will not take this lying down, cause this is more about suppression of freedom of speech not malema as the anc wld have us believe, that's is why the anc police state is now looking for the video of the zuma hecklers to silence them too, the anc reminds me so very much of the old national party with its brutally clamping down on freedom of expression, SAn jails will be full with black SAn youths who are dissidents of the anc just like under old nat regime, like the old nat regime anc leaders forcefully demand to be respected respect they afford to no one. SAns we are heading for the darkest era of our times, the era we all naively thought we left behind pre-94 pay attention.
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Apr 12, 2012

somaartakeit

or we can also look to Zimbabwe to see the future of our country, Mugabe also uses police against those who speak out against mismanagement of Zimbabwe, this video of the zuma hecklers highly sought out by the anc nazi state is to brutalise zuma's opponents, I thought we fought for freedom to associate and freedom to express ourselves??? everyday the anc gives me reasons to regret I ever had anything to do with them.
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Apr 12, 2012

somaartakeit

that's is why the anc police state is now looking for the video of the zuma hecklers to silence them too, as they've silenced Tatane just like apartheid regime silenced Hector Pieterson, SAns it is in your interest to NEVER forget history cause its now repeating itself.
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Apr 12, 2012

somaartakeit

Malema was right zuma is a dictator, Hani's daughter is right too anc has become an organisation of power drunken thieving thugs.
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Apr 12, 2012

RobinH

truthhurt. I think your tiny little bubble of ego is about to burst. YOU may have elected the clown to the pathetic ANCYL roadshow, but YOU are by no means THE PEOPLE, as I think you are soon to realise. The ANCYL may make a lot of noise, and thow chairs at civilised people and so on as much as it likes, it remains a sideshow to the real circus we call parliament. That place with a dancing polygamous ringmaster and a lot of toothless lions skulking in the corners.
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Apr 12, 2012

Vhamsanda

It is true that the writting is on the wall against Malema. I hope that Ramaphosa will act in a dignified manner when he finally hit the final nail into Malema's coffin and not act like he did in the previous meeting when he acted like a WWE superstar on drugs.
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Apr 12, 2012

somaartakeit

@Vhamsanda you ppl should not be so small minded all the time, this is not about malema this is about zuma seeking second term, inspite that he is the most incompetent president this country ever had,

granted malema has been very rude, but he was encouraged by the very same leaders of the anc to be like that both mantashe and zuma defended him and I seem to remember that Tokyo also defended him, so now why ONLY expel him? How is that fair and consistent with alleged claim to instill discipline and moral code?
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Apr 12, 2012

somaartakeit

and if anc is allowed to get away with victimising those who speak up against its hypocrisy and corruption, you all must remember that you are next in the line, today is Malema tomorrow it will definitely be you, cause zuma anc want SAns to be submissive to them.
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