With Malema gone, the ANCYL quickly fell in line. The lie of the land for Zuma’s second term couldn’t have been made clearer. From their side, Malema enemies like the ANCYL treasurer-general Pule Mabe, and Manamela, were elected onto the elite body. With him gone, the entire faction not only lost comprehensively at the party’s elective conference in December, but was punished by being shut out of the top six, with many of them shut out of the NEC. He happily took up the yards of rope that ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe dished out, and eventually hanged himself in spectacular form last year. Then came Malema’s cacophonous tumble from power. The PYA was split along factional lines, just like the tripartite alliance was. Sasco (the university students) began taking exception to some policies introduced by Nzimande as higher education minister, leading to a cooling of friendship with the YCL. The new alliance was quickly over, with Manamela becoming an ANC member of parliament and Malema choosing to go to war against Zuma. We also do not believe that insults should come first in the place of intellectual discourse, and that hurling insults is merely a form of expressing intellectual bankruptcy.” We doubt if the majority of members of the ANC Youth League share his sentiment of insulting Comrade Blade Nzimande, as we know that many of them hold him in high regard.
The YCL national committee responded to Malema and said: “Many men far greater and better than Julius have travelled the road that he seeks to embark, and many more of them were doomed to failure. After Zuma’s victory, communist party leader Blade Nzimande took a public swipe at Malema, and provoked a blistering ad hominem attack that soured relations between the firebrand ANCYL president and the communist party, which included Manamela. Malema and YCL national secretary Buti Manamela were central figures in President Jacob Zuma’s bid for power at the ANC’s 2007 national conference, and were often seen campaigning together. Soon after Mbeki was removed from power, the ANCYL and the YCL fell apart. If you’re rejigging your budgets, and it comes to choosing between frothy milk and Daily Maverick, we hope you might reconsider that cappuccino. Our country is going to be considerably worse off if we don’t have a strong, sustainable news media. We can't survive on hope and our own determination. A little less than a week’s worth of cappuccinos. At R200, you get it back in Uber Eats and ride vouchers every month, but that’s just a suggestion. After all, how much you value our work is subjective (and frankly, every amount helps). We don’t dictate how much we’d like our readers to contribute.
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