North West ANC Youth League chairman Collen Maine was elected president at the organisation’s 25th national elective conference on Friday night.
Maine smiled and shook hands with national task team members as he was called to the podium.
”Comrades, this is the newly elected leaders of the ANCYL national congress,” NTT member Nocawe Mafu announced to a loud applause from the delegates.
ANCYL Mpumalanga chairman Desmond Moela was elected deputy president and Njabulo Nzuza, the secretary in the Musa Dladla region in KwaZulu-Natal, was elected secretary general. Limpopo’s deputy chairwoman Thandi Moraka was elected Nzuza’s deputy and Reggie Nkabinde from Gauteng’s West Rand took the position of treasurer.
Voting was conducted through a show of name tags following a chaotic nomination process on Friday night, when delegates demanded that nominations for former youth league deputy president Ronald Lamola be recounted.
Lamola surprised delegates and reporters when he declined nomination as deputy president.
