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ANCYL President Collen Malatji

Malatji vows to take up arms if need be to remove illegal foreign nationals

The ANC Youth League president said if the police did not do their job, young South Africans would ‘take our country from people who are hijacking it’

Kingmakers: The newly elected ANC Youth League national officials during the 27th National Congress,
Collen Malatji (president), Francisco Dyantyi (deputy president), Tsakani Tshivhiti (secretary general), Zama
Khanyase (1st deputy secretary general), Venus Blennies (2nd deputy secretary general) and Jacob Tau (treasurer general). Photo: Lunga Mzangwe

ANCYL ‘will sell its votes to highest bidder’, insiders say

Malatji said those who raise such comments are obsessed with capturing the youth league and were not succeeding

The incoming leadership of the ANC Youth League . Photo: Lunga Mzangwe

Collen Malatji re-elected uncontested as ANCYL president

Malatji’s slate was also not contested at the youth league’s 27th national congress

ANC Youth League outgoing leadership in Limpopo. Photo: Lunga Mzangwe

ANC Youth League claims credit for most of the party’s votes in 2024 elections

The league said most of the people who had voted for the party last year were young people

ANC Youth League President Collen Malatji (@ANCYLhq)

Collen Malatji: I would rather support Magashule’s return to the ANC than that of Jacob Zuma

The ANC Youth League president also warned that removing Cyril Ramaphosa as president would plunge the country into chaos

Suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Doubt on ANC leaders in KZN

The provincial police commissioner’s allegations against the police minister and the higher education minister’s Seta appointments have undermined their reputations

ANC Youth League President Collen Malatji (@ANCYLhq)

Malatji: Nkabane ‘cowardly’ for withdrawing ANC linked appointments as Seta board chairs

The ANC Youth League president said those who serve in government and are considered to be youth of the party should only fear him, not opposition parties

ANCYL President Collen Malatji

Collen Malatji: ANC hates small boy Floyd Shivambu; no one cares about him — and Zuma realised it

The ANC Youth League president said he would rather EFF leader Julius Malema returned to the ANC than Shivambu, who he dismissed as having no support base

ANCYL President Collen Malatji

ANC Youth League’s Malatji defends treasurer’s lack of tertiary qualifications

The youth league president also said that if AfriForum is not interested in nation building, its supporters should pack up and go to the US

ANCYL President Collen Malatji

Youth league president Malatji warns SACP against breaking alliance with ANC

He also said Jacob Zuma was a ‘counter-revolutionary’ who ‘sold his people for nothing’

ANC Youth League president Collen Malatji. Photo: @Collen_Malatji3/X

Cracks emerge in ANC Youth League leadership slate as allegations of division intensify

But president Collen Malatji says rumours of division are being spread by those who want the league to implode

The ANC in Gauteng believes it is on track to secure at least 40% of the vote in the 2026 local government elections (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Calls for ANC Youth League Gauteng conference to be postponed over violence, parallel structures

Officials are accused of manipulating branch general meetings to ensure victory for their preferred candidates

Democratic Alliance federal council chairperson Helen Zille. (Marco Longari/AFP)

Helen Zille is a ‘problem’ for the GNU and undermines John Steenhuisen as a leader, says ANCYL’s Collen Malatji

The ANCYL president says they will remove president Cyril Ramaphosa if things don’t improve

Fomer Justice Minister Thembi Simelane. (Photo by Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

ANC NEC to discuss strengthening step-aside guidelines, empowering integrity commission

Veterans league president Snuki Zikalala said if members ‘stepped on the toes’ of the integrity commission, there must be immediate consequences

ANC Youth League president Collen Malatji. Photo: @Collen_Malatji3/X

ANC Youth League leader Collen Malatji accuses SAPS of incompetence and criminal ties

He said police were not properly trained and criminals were not scared of them because they worked together

ANC Youth League president Collen Malatji. Photo: @Collen_Malatji3/X

State shouldn’t be ‘scared’ to employ ANC members, youth league president says

Collen Malatji doubles down on call on Gauteng premier to give ANC members work under the Nasi Ispani jobs initiative

Former president Jacob Zuma. Photo: Fani Mahuntsi/Getty Images

‘Dropout’ Jacob Zuma should be grateful to ANC, says youth league leader

Collen Malatji also said the party had been nursing the former president for too long, given he had caused more damage to the party than any other ANC leader

Servant leader: Oscar Mabuyane says he has done all he can for the
Eastern Cape. Photo: Oupa Nkosi

Provincial leaders suspect foul play as Mabuyane appears fifth on the party list in race for premier

ANC Women’s League provincial chair Ntandokazi Capa is first on the list while Eastern Cape chairperson and premier Oscar Mabuyane’s position hangs in the balance