ANC Youth League president Collen Maine — PICTURE: MOELETSI MABE "Jesus" on Thursday moved speedily from Nelson Mandela Bay, in Eastern Cape, to Mogale City, on the West Rand, as the ANC lost control of the two municipalities.President Jacob Zuma famously said that "the ANC will rule until Jesus comes".And, as the party faces the prospect of losing control of Ekurhuleni, on the East Rand, and of Johannesburg, in addition to Tshwane and Rustenburg, its youth league fired a salvo at their elders — the party leaders — and demanded an early elective conference at which new leaders would presumably be nominated and elected.Collen Maine, the ANC Youth League president, said the league believed that all members of the party's national executive committee — its highest decision-making body between national conferences — should account at an early conference for the party's poor performance in the municipal elections.The ANC's share of the national vote has been reduced from 62% in 2011 to 5...
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