ANCYL seeks to redefine nationalisation research mandate

Julius Malm sand machine pricepage4ema's ANC Youth League insists that the inquiry into the nationalisation of South Africa's mines must not be "depoliticised". The ANC Youth League, headed by Julius Malema, sought today to qualify the mandate of the party's National Executive Committee to a team that will investigate the nationalisation of the country's mines.

"The ANC Youth League will support all research on nationalisation of mines which is not depoliticised and taken out of its original political context and strategic vision of the ANC, the Freedom Charter," spokesman Floyd Shivambu said in a statement. The league appeared to threaten to reject a conclusion based on economic and business realities, saying "a depoliticised research outcome which ignores the politics of the national democratic revolutionary agenda will not find resonance in the African National Congress". The party's NEC announced after a weekend meeting that it would appoint a team to investigate nationalisation and report in time for its 2012 conference...