In apparent imitation of and a challenge to the “youthful” Economic Freedom Fighters, the governing ANC has bragged about having included a large number of youth, mainly from the ANC Youth League and student bodies, on its national and provincial candidates lists for the upcoming election.
The move by the ANC is seen as a direct challenge to the Economic Freedom Fighters, led by Julius Malema. The EFF was the first political party in South Africa to be led entirely by young people and its presence in parliament has changed the country’s political landscape. She said it was important that the party renewed itself because most of its MPs were too old and out of touch with issues.
It is believed that the ANC deliberately included the youth in order for them to challenge the EFF in parliamentary debates. It is alleged that the ANC strategy of co-option was meant to take the sting out of the campaign by removing its key leaders. Lamola was deputy president to former ANC Youth League leader, Julius Malema, who was expelled from the party along with Floyd Shivambu and others before establishing the EFF of which he is president. Lamola, who is number 5 on the ANC national list, is a practising lawyer and deputy chair of the ANC sub-committee on economic transformation, and a champion of the party’s land reform policy.
Copy cat old age home I wonder whose capable from youth League if still exist
From now on ANC MYANC must be called African National Copycats(ANC).
Oh please....the ANClist is anything but 'youthful'. Can you not insult our intelligence please. On avarage, a person the the ANClist are in their 60s, while those on the EFFlist are mostly in theur 30s. Stop!
Perfect headline. A fairly balanced article. The ANC feels .......everywhere 👇👇
ANClist is pensioners village 👴👵
The average age of the corrupt ANC list is 66 years and most of that is pickled in white man's whisky
Which youthful candidates list?
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Which ones? How many?
Age ain't nothing but a number, right? And on top of it all, without CONTENT. The madalas will be more exposed, Siyeza
Anc list is not youthful
Kanthi how old is this eff?
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ANC has young ones within
Lead Eff Lead...
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