ANCYL ordered to apologise to Kathrada’s family or face legal action
Civil society organisation ACM wants the league to apologise for disrespecting a court order when disrupting a Durban memorial service.
Pravin Gordhan speaks. Crowd listening intently at Kathrada memorial in Durban. Image: Yadhana Jadoo
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in KwaZulu-Natal has reportedly been ordered to offer an “unconditional and unequivocal apology” to the family of late ANC struggle stalwart Ahmed Kathrada for disrupting his memorial service‚ or face legal action.
Organisers of last Sunday’s memorial service at Durban’s Sastri College, Lawyers for the Active Citizens Movement (ACM), have given the league until Saturday to do so after some of its members booed axed finance minister Pravin Gordhan and ANC treasurer general Zweli Mkhize at the service, TimesLIVE reports.
The ACM wants the ANCYL to apologise for violating a Durban High Court order that barred the league from disrupting the memorial service.
ACM lawyer Viren Singh is reported to have written a letter to the ANCYL’s attorneys, stating there was “overwhelming evidence” indicating the “unlawful conduct constitutes an attack on the rule of law and the constitution and calls for an appropriate response and censure”, according to the report.
Despite this, Singh said they had decided to give the ANCYL an opportunity to apologise, according to the ACM’s terms, before going the litigation route.
The ACM has ordered the ANCYL to confirm its response in writing by 4pm on Saturday.
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