The ANC Youth League in Tshwane has issued a “post menopausal denialism” media statement against current Gauteng Provincial Legislature Speaker Morakane Mosupye.
Mosupye was apparently in the City of Tshwane Council chambers to serve as an advisor for the election/nomination of the leaders of the City of Tshwane junior council known as the Youth Council.
Chaos ensued when the ANC Youth League structures questioned the legitimacy of the said Youth Council and objected to Mosupye’s alleged attempt to force the Speaker and Chief Whip of the Youth Council to accept a candidate of her own liking as one of the leaders of the Youth Council held on Thursday 5 June 2025.
The ANC Youth League’s member’s questioned the legitimacy of the so-called Youth Council as well as the credibility of the candidate who was apparently proposed by Mosupye.
After a prolonged “back-and-forth” between the incensed ANC Youth League members and the Youth Council Speaker Katlego Monye, Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD) officials were roped into the Council chambers to deal with the protesting ANC Youth League members.
The TMPD officers can be seen on various social media platforms manhandling the ANC Youth League members and taking them out of the Council chambers.
It is alleged that the said ANC Youth League members and their supporters were subsequently teargased and baton-charged by the self-same TMPD officers outside the Metro’s headquarters Tshwane House.
This led to the Tshwane ANC Youth League releasing a disparaging media statement later on that day to the detriment of City of Tshwane Mayor Dr Nasiphi Moya and Gauteng Provincial Legislature Speaker Morakane Mosupye.
Parts of the Tshwane ANC Youth League’s statement reads as follows:
“We were not blind to the frail yet politically poisonous presence of a former Bophuthatswana homeland/ Bantustan relic Morakane Mosupye who suffers from post menopausal denialism and whose unsolicited guidance to this bogus structure (Youth Council) raises grave questions about the preservation and re-emergence of apartheid-era patronage within the soul of our City of Tshwane Municipality.”
The statement goes on to say the public is asked draw its own conclusion regarding the fact that a Mayor who cannot articulate a youth-inclusive policy finds joy in unleashing armed special forces of the TMPD upon peacefully youth while coddling up to manufactured tokens and unleashing batons on the youth, who are the embodiment of the spirit of the June q1976 student uprisings.
“Let it be known: we are not beggars at the table of political power in the City of Tshwane, we are the builders of the selfsame table of political power and if no self-correction regarding an inclusive process that affirms all youth in Tshwane cones forth, then we shall have no choice but to visit her (the Mayor) politically, guerrilla-style with the fire of radical democratic renewal and this is not a request but a declaration because the blood of our 1976 youth generation is not cheap,” concluded the statement.
The ANC Youth League elaborated that the so-called Youth Council has no legal authority or basis in the City of Tshwane.
Be that as it may an official from the office of the City of Tshwane Council Speaker told Tshwane Talks that the Youth Council was elected in June 2023, but didn’t mention as to who elected the said Youth Council.
The office of the Greater Tshwane ANC told Tshwane Talks that it was still awaiting a report regarding the aforesaid fracas at the Youth Council meeting but didn’t respond when asked to state as to who it was that he was awaiting the so-called report in this matter.
The following statement was issue by Tshwane ANCYL:
