Johnathan Paoli
ANC Youth League president Collen Malatji has urged the organisation to register its intellectual property and brands to prevent people from appropriating its identity.
Speaking at a Peter Mokaba memorial lecture in Kanyamazane, Mpumalanga, on Thursday, Malatji criticised former president Jacob Zuma and said that the youth must defend the ANC from “opportunists”.
Malatji was giving an address as part of the ANC’s January 8 celebrations and said there was an urgent need to register the organisations that belong to the ANC in light of appropriation.
“We must defend the ANC; the next thing we are going to have people registering the UDF as a political party. If people do not get elected within the structures of the ANC they will wake up in the morning and form a political party and go away with the history of the ANC,” Malatji warned..

The Youth league president said the youth of the country stands with president Cyril Ramaphosa and would rise to defend the nation.
ANCYL convener in Mpumalanga Sipho Mahlangu said the league would defend the ANC at all costs, and that they noted with disappointment that former leaders of the party have grown greedy and vain.
“We want to compare them to a donkey that returned to the city without Jesus Christ because it believes that it was more popular than Jesus Christ. The former president of the ANC believes that he is more popular than the ANC,” Mahlangu said.
The SACP also lashed out at Zuma and said that it regretted supporting his bid to become the country’s head of state.
SACP General secretary, Solly Mapaila was speaking at the Joe Slovo Memorial lecture, Mpumalanga and said that Zuma had pioneered state capture and allowed for corrupt politicians to infiltrate government institutions.
“What he has embarked upon, particularly mobilising former soldiers of uMkhonto weSizwe, is a counter-revolutionary act. We must say it for what it is, there’s nothing other than that,” Mapaila said.
Mapaila said that Zuma disrespected the former liberation party’s roots by using its armed wing to illustrate his unhappiness with the party’s current leadership.



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