ANCYL challenges Buffalo City leadership over Mbalula endorsement and mayoral race
The ANCYL has challenged Buffalo City's ANC leadership over its endorsement of Fikile Mbalula and the mayoral candidate selection process.
The ANC Youth League (ANCYL) in the Dr WB Rubusana region of the Eastern Cape has challenged the regional leadership over the premature endorsement of secretary-general Fikile Mbalula for the party presidency. The league also accuses the Rubusana regional executive committee (REC) of favouring incumbent mayor Princess Faku in the race to become the ANC's mayoral candidate for the metro.
ANCYL regional chair Loyiso Mkubelo wrote to the REC demanding an explanation, expressing concern that the pronouncement undermines democratic processes and goes against party headquarters' warnings against premature succession debates. The ANCYL argues that no individual leader or structure has the authority to commit ANC branches to a candidate without a formal mandate from party members, and that the REC cannot demand discipline from the youth league while avoiding scrutiny of its own pronouncements.
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