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ANCYL press briefing on the outcomes of its 2nd National General Council at Luthuli House, 19 September 2025.
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) says no ANC-run municipality should perform worse than those governed by the Democratic Alliance (DA).
Speaking at a media briefing in Johannesburg after their National General Council, ANCYL President Collen Malatji, said the league would push the ANC to act on underperforming mayors and councillors ahead of the 2026 local elections.
Malatji says this is part of a broader effort to renew the ANC and restore public trust.
“You must always be better than them. There can’t be municipalities of the ANC that are performing below municipalities of the DA. Now that one, I think, is a good pressure. Maybe the media might be taking it out of context, but it’s a good pressure. The president has put in place that no municipality of the ANC must perform below a municipality of the DA because we have presented ourselves in society as being the best in society,” says Malatji.
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Additionally, the ANCYL is calling for justice for slain member Nkateko Mbhoma who was killed while traveling to the league’s National General Council (NGC) earlier this month.
Malatji says the league will monitor the investigation and demand accountability.
“The ANC demands justice for the late Nkateko. His death is not only an attack to his family and comrades but on the youth itself, we demand the law enforcement urgently to urgently bring its killers to justice”,” adds Malatji.
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Furthermore, the ANCYL is demanding the urgent establishment of a state bank.
The ANCYL says the Post Bank and African Bank must be merged immediately to form a strong, state-owned alternative.
The youth league also wants all government salaries, grants, and student funding channeled through the Post Bank to strengthen it as a bank of choice.
ANCYL Secretary General, Mntuwoxolo Ngudle, says there is no reason why there is no state bank in South Africa.
“All these assets which are otherwise supposed to be prescribed assets or national revenue funds, these are state or public assets which are supposed to be controlled, dispersed, at a central state disbursement instrument, which is the state bank,” says Ngudle.
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