ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe has denounced the ANC Youth League, describing it as nothing but a group of "henchmen" unleashed on individual candidates. Addressing the National Union of Mineworkers’ (NUM) central committee in Irene on Thursday, Mantashe said that the structure might as well not exist. But while Mantashe was blunt about the state of affairs in the ANC, describing the tripartite alliance it led as in "disarray", he was coy about the dismal state of the union he led until 2006. Much to the delight of the delegates who seemed more concerned with ANC affairs than other matters, Mantashe launched a scathing attack on the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) while explaining why the ANC had chosen to keep scandal-prone President Jacob Zuma in his position, despite the challenges his leadership was causing for the party and alliance. The ANC leader singled out the league as a problem in the organisation’s attempts to resolve its issues internally. The Youth League did not "fit t...
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