The ANC Youth League in Free State has demanded Premier MaQueen Mathae make space for one of their own in her cabinet. (Mlungisi Louw/Gallo Images/Volksblad)
The ANC Youth League in Free State has called the exclusion of young people in the provincial executive “nonsensical” and has demanded Premier MaQueen Mathae to make space for one of their own in her cabinet.
The call by the ANCYL in Free State follows a similar dissatisfaction by their counterparts in Gauteng, who have also raised their displeasure that Premier Panyaza Lesufi has excluded young people from his cabinet.
In a statement on Saturday, following its provincial executive committee meeting on Friday, the ANCYL in Free State said its call for the inclusion of young people in the executive continues to “fall on deaf ears”.
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