The ANCYL Membership Must Awaken to its Political Responsibilities and Remove Julius Malema as President of the ANCYL
As we marked the 34th Anniversary of the 1976 June 16 in style by hosting the FIFA Soccer World Cup, Julius Malema and his private army of corporals have set up a disciplinary hearing/ kangaroo court to try and expel the Chairperson of ANCYL in Limpopo comrade Lehlohonolo Masoga and his entire Provincial Executive Committee. This is for daring to stand up against the warlodism of Malema and his private army. These comrades are being charged because they have refused to let the ANCYL disintegrate in the hands of those who use the might of the police to steal ANCYL conferences.
This kangaroo court is part of a concerted effort on the part of Malema and his private army to reverse the many gains we have made in building an egalitarian society. They have put at risk the very survival of the ANCYL.
Through his disdain and disrespect for women, Malema has ensured that our organization regresses from the gains it has made in fighting sexism in the country; his racist rantings have engulfed the country with racial tensions thus reversing whatever gains we have made in building a non-racial and united South Africa; his economic populism has compromised the tactics employed by the ANC in its march towards a fair and just economic system in the country; he has trampled upon the organizational and self discipline principles of our organization by showing disrespect and careless attitudes towards the collective leadership of our organization.
Julius is also guilty of attempting to weaken President Zuma, thus attempting to erode the confidence of our people on the president, by patronizing him as the only leader worthy of retaining beyond 2012.
Malema and his private army of corporals have now become representatives of a foreign tendency that has taken a form of reactionary triumphalism, disrespect of ANC protocol, abuse of organizational discipline and the corrupting of our democratic centralism principle for selfish ends. What is now left is a sustained onslaught against this reactionary tendency.