ANCYL ROCKS A TATTERED ANC

If the ANC Youth league (ANCYL) believes it is in a position to orchestrate the future role of ANC elders, it is no fantasy. The ANCYL has called for an overhaul of the party's leadership. In doing so, it excoriated Gwede Mantashe for calling on unnamed cadres to resign, and instead Mantashe was told "do so alone". Clearly the ANC's poor showing in the recent election has magnified factional rifts within the party.  For the ANCYL to undermine the likes of Mantashe, who are deemed to be impediments to increasing its sphere of influence within the organisation is clearly a new phenomenon.  Historically the ANCYL has hardly been an influential body within the ANC. No longer, as the shift in power within the country has now afforded the young guns of the ANCYL the means to put the old men and women in Luthuli House out to pasture.