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Most media reports in the past two weeks have sought to suggest that I, Andile Lungisa, am at the centre of divisions in the African National Congress Youth League in my capacity as Deputy President. These reports recurrently suggest that I am challenging the incumbent President of the ANC Youth League as President of the organisation now and in the National Congress in 2011. I officially distance myself from all these allegations and put it on record that I will not do anything that divides the organisation.

As a disciplined member of the organisation, I hold a view that those who take the ANC Youth League to Court are ill-disciplined, because disciplined members of the organisation discuss issues within the organisation and accept all the principles of democratic centralism. If any person thought that they will engage in ill-disciplined activities in my name, they should know that I do not approve of such actions. The ANC Youth League remains an important organisation in the transformation of society and should never be sacrificed for anything.

Media detractors should altogether stop using my name to drive divisions within the ANC Youth League, because such attempts will never succeed. The ANC Youth League is unanimous and very clear on all the political and ideological positions we intend to pursue towards the centenary of the ANC in 2012, and no one will successfully divide the organisation using our names.