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ANC Youth League President Collen Malatji, brefieng the media.
ANC Youth League President Collen Malatji has criticised the National Convention, which took place almost two weeks ago, as a “tea party of friends”.
Malatji made the comments at a media briefing at the party’s headquarters in Johannesburg today.
The ANC Youth League briefed the media on its upcoming National General Council, which is set to take place next month.
ANCYL President, Cde Collen Malatji, addresses the media to launch the historic discussion documents for the forthcoming 2nd National General Council and to provide an update on the state of readiness for this important gathering.#ANCYL#ThePeoplesMovement pic.twitter.com/zhqvooXjqE
— ANC – African National Congress (@MYANC) August 27, 2025
Malajti claims that President Cyril Ramaphosa was misled in convening the National Convention.
“I’m saying if the Youth League is not there, whether it’s EFF or all these parties, the civil organizations that we know are out there, or even the foundations that represent integrity, they will not be there. Now, obviously, it was clear that it was a platform created by opportunists to try to present that for the past eight years the ANC has done nothing for South Africans. It was a right-winger platform, anti-democracy setup programmed by people who are obsessed about taking the progressive out of power.”
The #ANCYL has criticised the national Convention that took place to kick start the national dialogue, “you can’t have a national dialogue that excludes the youth, it must be about the economic and inclusiveness of the economy.” #sabcnews pic.twitter.com/cIGP8zRU8K
— #LordOfTheMedia (@samkelemaseko) August 27, 2025
Furthermore, ANC Youth League Secretary-General Mntuwoxolo Ngudle says a National Dialogue that does not resolve the land question and the economy is only a waste of time.
The ANCYL is one of the many organisations that have also criticised the National Dialogue.
Ngudle said the National Dialogue should focus more on the transformation of the country’s economy.
“We’re not going to accept anything that is dragging us to other things that are not talking about transforming this country’s economy including ensuring acceleration of land reform and that’s what we are proposing in the National Dialogue. Any National Dialogue that does not resolve the land question and the economy is a mere waste of time because our historic struggle as Africans and the black people in this country is a struggle against the dispossessions of land and the economy.”
#ANCYL Secretary General Muntowoxolo Ngudle says the seven cardinal pillars of the 2011 ANC YL Congress must be at the centre stage of the National Dialogue, “we won’t listen or entertain anything that doesn’t touch on the change of the economy and land question.” #sabcnews pic.twitter.com/LzDE7RvJR7
— #LordOfTheMedia (@samkelemaseko) August 27, 2025
