The Eastern Cape ANCYL will ignore ANC Youth League president Julius Malema’s suspension from the party until after a pronouncement on the matter at the ANC conference in December.

"Julius is still the president, even if the mitigation can arrive at the same conclusion [that he be suspended] -- any discussion of a post-Julius era is premature at this stage," ANCYL provincial secretary Mziwonke Ndabeni was quoted as saying by the Dispatch Online.

On Saturday the African National Congress's disciplinary committee of appeals announced that the attempts by Malema, his spokesman Floyd Shivambu, and four other ANCYL officials to have their suspensions overturned had been unsuccessful.

They were found guilty in November last year of bringing the ANC into disrepute and of sowing division in the party.

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