{{Comments about expelled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema made by an ANC Gauteng provincial executive committee (PEC) member do not reflect the party’s views, it said on Tuesday.}}<\/p>\n
“We want to put it on record that the views expressed by the PEC member comrade Panyaza Lesufi are his personal opinions,” ANC Gauteng spokesperson Dumisa Ntuli said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“At no stage of any ANC Gauteng meeting [did] such views or discussion emerge,” he said.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the Independent Online reported that Lesufi had called on the ANC to review its decision to expel Malema, who now leads the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF).<\/p>\n
He was quoted as saying: “The ANC still needs a Julius Malema, in so much as a Julius Malema cannot survive ‘outside of the ANC’, an organisation that made him what he is today.”<\/p>\n
Lesufi said he respected the party’s decision to expel Malema two years ago, but that the decision might have been “too harsh”.<\/p>\n
“Unlike [the Congress of the People], whose members left the ANC, these comrades were expelled, surely a decision that is within our powers to review.”<\/p>\n
Ntuli encouraged Lesufi to raise his concerns at ANC meetings.<\/p>\n
“The matter of the expulsion of Julius Malema has been fully exhausted in the internal processes of the ANC, his expulsion is now history.”<\/p>\n
Malema’s expulsion from the party was finalised in April 2012.<\/p>\n
He was found guilty of sowing division in the party and bringing it into disrepute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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