Financially crippled ANC could foot the bill for youth league conference
The ANC will likely foot the bill for its bankrupt youth league when it goes to its elective conference in March.
The league was disbanded in August after it failed to go to conference for the third time.
The party heeded the call of many young members who had called for a national task team to be established in its place.
In July 2019, News24 reported that the structure was left bankrupt when the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg ruled in favour of then-Western Cape premier Helen Zille who was seeking payment from a defamation case. It was then forced into liquidation.
The case relates to an incident in 2010 when former leaders Julius Malema, Andile Lili and Floyd Shivambu allegedly referred to Zille as a racist.