With the ANC Youth League going into its early national conference in Limpopo between Sunday and Wednesday next week, the league in the Eastern Cape has thrown its weight behind its provincial secretary, Francisco Dyantyi, for the deputy president position. The province will be sending one of the biggest delegations to the league’s four-day national conference set to sit at Limpopo’s Turfloop Campus in Mankweng, with 583 delegates, whose mandate will be to have Dyantyi elected as Collen Malatji’s deputy. Gauteng-born Malatji will be going for his second term as the ANCYL president after he was elected at their 26th national congress in July 2023.
More than 4,000 delegates from across the country are expected to attend the league’s 27th national elective congress. The Eastern Cape has confirmed that it now wants former student leader Dyantyi to take over the reins from the league’s outgoing deputy president, Phumzile Mgcina. The league’s provincial chair, Vuyo Jali, on Tuesday confirmed that the province would be pinning its hopes on Dyantyi as a sole representative of the Eastern Cape in the ANCYL’s national executive committee’s top six.
This, Jali said, was because Dyantyi was “one of the best candidates we have in our space in the province, who is ready to take a seat at a national level”. “The Eastern Cape is one of the biggest and respected provinces, with a vast history in the liberation struggle, hence we want representation in the next list of officials to steer the youth league forward. “In him [Dyantyi], we have chosen a leader we believe is ready to represent the province and take up a seat in that space, as he is one of the best candidates we have in the bag, while age is also allowing him to now take up space on the national stage,” Jali said.
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Those branches told me that the Eastern Cape is a province with rich political history and that there was a demise in terms of its national leadership footprint. Dyantyi had all the necessary credentials, “as he grew up in the ranks of the mass democratic movement, led the Congress of South African Students (Cosas) up to being its provincial secretary”. “He also led the South African Students Congress (Sasco) with diligence while he was a student at Walter Sisulu University, going as far as being its provincial secretary, before he was elected the ANCYL’s provincial secretary.
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