PHUTI MOSOMANE
ANDILE Lungisa, the enfant terrible of South African politics, is back from the political wilderness.
His brand of radical politics evoke contradictory response, from stringent criticism to blind admiration from adherents to his political praxis.
Lungisa, a former ANC Youth League leader, was suspended from the ANC after he was convicted of assaulting a DA councillor with a water jug on the head during a council meeting in 2018.
His suspension was upheld by the ANC National Disciplinary Committee (NDC) just weeks before the party’s 55th National Conference in Nasrec, south of Johannesburg.
He made a stunning comeback when delegates at the National Conference demanded that he be allowed to stand for elections into the National Executive Committee (NEC).
He secured 1782 votes, becoming number 11 on the 80-member NEC.
On Saturday, Lungisa was invited by the current Youth League and was assigned a responsibility to introduce
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