ANCYL intends to put a stop to fights in courts
THE ANC Youth League is set to amend its constitution to be able to automatically expel members who approach courts for relief.
This proposal is contained in a discussion document to be tabled at the league's national general council in Midrand later this month.
"As a matter of administering justice, the ANC Youth League should effect necessary constitutional amendments to pre-condition automatic expulsion for all members who take the organisation to court for internal organisational matters and commit other offences such as attending meetings of the organisation under the influence of alcohol or drugs," it reads.
"This should be effected because allowing internal organisational matters to be adjudicated by courts will degenerate the organisation into total insignificance, where it will be only those who have access to legal support who will impose court decisions on the organisation. The constitutional amendment should classify actions that require automatic dismissals."
Spokesperson Floyd Shivambu yesterday said there was general restlessness in the ANCYL against members who take grievances to court.
"Reality dictates that we have to deal with such members decisively," he said.
The ANCYL in KwaZulu-Natal yesterday warned the judiciary to desist from "meddling" in internal party political matters. Provincial secretary Bheki Mtolo said the league was angry at members who go to court.
"As the ANCYL in KwaZulu-Natal, we are disgusted and very angry at the actions of stupid, senseless and foolish morons and buffoons who have prevented the continuing of ANCYL Eastern Cape congress. We call upon these politically bankrupt clowns to desist from their actions of counter revolution," Mtolo said.
He said these members were out to destroy the ANCYL and the ANC itself.
The league also called on its mother body to expel these "counter revolutionary forces" with immediate effect.
Mtolo said the leader of the dissolved Eastern Cape provincial executive committee, Mlibo Qoboshiyane, was no longer a member.
"We also want to warn the judiciary to desist from meddling in our internal political issues. We have always respected the independency of the judiciary.
"However, the conduct of some of the judges who have become political role players has made us conclude that we will engage with them in a political manner. We call upon all members to undermine this stupid political judgment. This is political and must be treated as such," Mtolo said.
The ANCYL in the Vhembe region of Limpopo at the weekend came out in support of former provincial chairperson Lehlogonolo Masoga. It said his expulsion was "too harsh a sentence. The disciplinary processes within our movement should seek to correct and not to punish", it said in a statement.