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ANCYL President Collen Malatji addresses the media at the party’s headquarters in Johannesburg.
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) has backed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to take Parliament’s Independent Panel report on review.
During the address to the nation on Monday, Ramaphosa announced that he would not be resigning, insisting that he had not committed any crime or stolen from the public purse.
ANC Youth League president, Collen Malatji, was addressing the media at the party’s headquarters in Johannesburg, on the Phala Phala saga and other matters pertaining youth unemployment.
He says political parties must not use this as political opportunism.
“The ANC Youth League believes that there are grounds for review which must be properly adjudicated by a court of law rather than through a public pressure or media trials or political opportunism or populist grandstanding. The ANC Youth League therefore rejects attempts to remove a democratically elected president through opportunism and media trials and unconstitutional means.”
📸 | The ANCYL President Cde Collen Malatji is addressing members of the media on key national developments, including the Phala Phala matter and other pressing issues affecting the youth of South Africa.
The briefing is in session, at Luthuli House Media Centre.#ANCYLatWork pic.twitter.com/qzSqipS5FC
— ANCYL (@ANCYLhq) May 12, 2026
Ramaphosa’s address followed the judgment of the Constitutional Court last Friday, which found Rule 129I of the Rules of the National Assembly to be inconsistent with the Constitution, and also ordered that the report be referred to the Impeachment Committee.
The legal challenge was brought by the Economic Freedom Fighters and African Transformation Movement, who had argued that the National Assembly acted irrationally in 2022, when it decided not to appoint a committee to look into the recommendations of the panel chaired by former Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo.
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