'ANC Youth League experience is not a guarantee for top ANC positions' - Sihle Zikalala
ANC national executive committee member and former ANC Youth League general secretary, Sihle Zikalala, has stated that while experience in the youth league is valuable for leadership development, it does not automatically qualify individuals to lead the ANC.
The youth league was celebrating its 80th anniversary and the event featured in-depth discussions with former and present leaders of the ANCYL. He drew parallels between the 1994 generation and the current one, stressing that the call to form the youth league remains relevant today.Zikalala said the youth league claimed to be a preparatory school of the ANC, which was correct, but noted this legacy is not automatically inherited.Not everyone who has been a member of the youth league and a leader must then be assumed that he or she qualifies to lead the ANC.
In the post-apartheid era, leadership passed to figures such as Patrick 'Terror' Lekota , Peter Mokaba , Malusi Gigaba , Fikile Mbalula , Julius Malema , Collen Maine , and currently Collen Malatji.
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