Time to deal with ANCYL - Zuma
2012-12-21 13:23
Bloemfontein - It is time that the ANC sorts out the issues
regarding the youth league, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday.
"They [ANC members] have not been happy with how the
ANC Youth League has behaved," Zuma said at a The New Age breakfast in
Bloemfontein.
"We are going to deal with the young people," he
said.
The issue of the African National Congress Youth League had
been discussed at the party's national conference.
A decision was taken that the ANC's new leadership would
tackle the matter.
'A little bit naughty'
Zuma said there had been unhappiness with the way the ANCYL
had behaved leading up to the disciplinary hearing of its former leader Julius
Malema.
The league did not have a president at the moment. It was
being led by deputy president Ronald Lamola.
It had also dissolved some of its structures, said Zuma.
Asked whether the ANC had failed the ANCYL, Zuma said
"not at all".
"The fathers and mothers [ANC] have not failed the
children [ANCYL].
"At a certain age they get a little bit naughty. That
process to deal with your children is not an overnight thing. There is still
some delinquency and there is a need to deal with that," said Zuma.
He said the ANC needed to make sure the ANCYL was corrected.
- SAPA
