The ANC Youth League is to hold a national executive committee (NEC) meeting this weekend to decide on the league’s future.

“We are going to have an NEC meeting this weekend and we are going to inform the nation of the direction of the youth league,” league deputy president Ronald Lamola said in Cape Town last night, the SABC reported today.

He said the league was not in crisis following the announcement of the expulsion of its president Julius Malema from the ANC on April 24.

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Expelled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema’s former lawyer has warned the ANC that it may lose power by 2019 it if continues to distance itself from the people, SABC radio reported on Saturday.

Dali Mpofu said the African National Congress was no longer close to the people and that was the reason why opposition parties were making strong inroads.

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A bid by embattled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema to have his temporary suspension set aside has been dismissed, the ANC’s appeal body said on Tuesday.

“The national disciplinary committee of appeals (NDCA)… found that the NDC [national disciplinary committee] did not breach the ANC constitution, the rules of natural justice and the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa,” chairperson Cyril Ramaphosa said in a statement.

Malema applied to the NDCA on April 5 to set aside the temporary suspension, and submitted his heads of argument on Sunday.

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“That is totally un-ANC. The leadership of the ANC will look at these developments and respond appropriately.”

- ANC spokesperson Jackson Mthembu, in response to yesterday’s decision by the ANC youth league’s national executive committee (NEC) for Julius Malema to continue his role as president, despite a suspension that was imposed by the NDC.

Source: City Press

ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema is in for a momentous weekend as he appeals against his temporary suspension today and the league’s executive holds its twice-postponed special meeting tomorrow to chart the way forward.

This comes as his financial woes also appear to be mounting. Construction at Malema’s multi-million rand Joburg home has been halted, reportedly due to non-payment of R400 000, according to Beeld newspaper.

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“You must never buy the story that we are anti-white and we want whites to be driven to the sea. I would die in defence of the white minority – they must enjoy the same rights as Africans. But when we say we must share, it doesn’t mean we are fighting – we are actually protecting you.”

- Former ANCYL leader Julius Malema, during his acceptance of the Newsmaker of the Year 2011 award in Pretoria on Friday evening.

Source: News24

Twitter was abuzz with suggestions  this week for what troubled former ANCYL leader Julius Malema could do for a living outside of the ANC.

Tips for an alternative career path included selling Tupperware, becoming a cosmetics representative for Avon or distributing pamphlets for churches.

We think Juju is a man of many talents. Share your suggestions of what he should do to ed@nn.co.za

“Mr Malema is 30 years old, he has no post-graduate degrees at all and he’s reputed to have R53 million in his bank account. Well where does the R53m come from? It’s not coming from tenders; it is coming from the people who tell him to [propose nationalisation]“

- Political analyst Steven Friedman on the ANCYL leader’s reasons for spearheading the proposal for nationalisation.

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The mitigation hearing for ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema and two other league members has ended, an ANC spokesperson said on Friday.

“The hearing finished around midnight last night [Thursday],” spokesperson Keith Khoza said. “All arguments were received and we are now waiting for a decision from the NDC [national disciplinary committee].”

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The suspension of ANC Youth League president Julius Malema and five other youth league members has been upheld, the ANC’s national disciplinary committee of appeal chairperson Cyril Ramaphosa announced today.

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Suspended ANC Youth League (ANCYL) leader Julius Malema will learn his fate when the ruling party’s national disciplinary committee of appeals hands down its verdict today.

In 2011, the ANC’s National Disciplinary Committee found the firebrand politician guilty of sowing divisions in the party.

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Limpopo and Julius Malema are almost synonymous. Now – with government’s consent – add incompetence, mismanagement and financial chaos to the lexicon of mess and corruption.

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Julius Malema’s appeal case begins this week, prompting analysts and political commentators to seriously question the political future of the beleaguered former ANCYL leader.

According to Jon Herskovitz of Reuters Africa, if the panel made up of senior ANC officials upholds the previous sentence, Malema, 30, would be stripped of his position as president of the ANC Youth League and ostracised by the party the dominates politics in Africa’s largest economy.

While Malema and five other league leaders prepare for the January 23^rd appeal date – their lawyers filed heads of argument today - Times Live reported that internal politics have forced a divide within the party as members vie to succeed Malema as president.

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Julius Malema has been slapped with a five year suspension after the ANC’s national disciplinary committee found him guilty of bringing the party into disrepute.
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Judge Collin Lamont has ruled Malema’s controversial ‘shoot the boer’ song as hate speech, Times Live reported earlier today.

“No justification exist allowing the words to be sung… the words were in any event not sung on a justifiable occasion,” Collins said during the High Court ruling in Johannesburg. Malema was not in court at the time.

Read more here (via Times Live)

Malema, Paris’s Libyan conference and another iPhone prototype goes missing. Here are the top 7 stories you need to know:

Top Story: The ANC’s National Disciplinary Committee is set to rule on Friday whether Julius Malema has been successful in his application to dismiss the charges brought against him. Read more here (via Eyewitness News)

South Africa:  ANC ‘won’t allow’ public-interest defence, meaning journalists could face up to 10 years in prison if they publish classified information without government declassification. Read more here (via Times Live)

World News: Leaders gather at a key summit in Paris to discuss Libya, hosted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and UK PM David Cameron. Read more here (via BBC)

Business & Economy: The Swazi government will continue to face severe liquidity constraints over the coming months despite a R2.4 billion loan from South Africa. Read more here (vial IOL)

Technology & Online: Apple staffer loses test iPhone in bar – again. Read more here (via The Guardian)

People & Culture: Venus Williams exits U.S. Open because of autoimmune disease. Read more here (via The LA Times)

Health & Science: The world’s first clinical trial of brain stem cells to treat strokes is set to move to its next phase. Read more here (via BBC News)

Free State African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) members were called up on Sunday for a solidarity gathering at the party’s Luthuli House headquarters in support of league president Julius Malema and others.

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Verskeie ondersoeke na korrupsie, insluitend dié van Julius Malema, is weens ‘n geldtekort op ys geplaas, het adv. Thuli Madonsela, Openbare Beskermer (OB), volgens die Sunday Independent gesê.

Lees die res van die storie hier. (via Nuus24.)

Several corruption probes, including that of ANC Youth League president Julius Malema, has been stalled due to lack of funds, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela said according to a report on Sunday.

Madonsela confirmed members from her office met with the National Treasury to apply for R30m in emergency funding this week in order to cover salaries and operational expenses for more investigations, The Sunday Independent reported.

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