"Tough warning to ANCYL members parading their personal views in the media"

31 May 2013

The National Working Committee of the ANCYL has noted with great concern the continuing media enthusiasm from ordinary membership who uses various platforms to advance their personal agendas to the detriment of the organisation. We are alarmed at this foreign tendency of decentralized commentary on organisational issues, including advancement of personal views when the national leadership has taken a posture to limit its engagement with the media during the rebuilding process

In this regard, we call upon all member of the YL to stop parading their views on the media and allow organisational processes to take precedence. If this tendency continues, we will be left with no choice but to invoke the constitution and discipline those going against this call as it compromises our effort to build unity and cohesion within the organization in line with our intention to reposition the ANC Youth League to be a fighting force for Economic Freedom in our Lifetime.

We are focusing on elections work to ensure decisive victory for the ANC, any divergent views will not assist but undermine progress we are making. The NTT is not a group of ancestors; it will pronounce itself on its decisions at an appropriate time.

We want to assure membership that the visits to Provinces and Regions are proving to be very helpful to understand the state of the organisation. Once all structures have been visited, we should be in a position to outline our detail programme of action based on the decisions we would have made at the time.

We want to encourage all our structures to be responsible when communicating organisational decisions, equally we discourage membership from writing in their personal capacities but still stating their associations with the League as those views are mostly attributed to our structures and the mother body.

The Head Office of the ANCYL continues to be inundated with media queries including request for interviews, but not all are helpful towards the repositioning of the organisation hence not all are processed by the leadership. 

Statement issued by the African National Congress Youth League, May 31 2013

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