Johannesburg - The ANC Youth League welcomed the ANC in Limpopo’s support for the nationalisation of mines and other sectors of the economy on Monday.
"As an ANC resolution at the level of a PGC [provincial general council], we believe that this gives more inspiration to economic freedom fighters to continue with struggles for economic freedom in our lifetime," spokesperson Floyd Shivambu said in a statement.
He was reacting to the outcome Limpopo ANC's PGC held over the weekend.
Shivambu said the decision on whether mines should be placed in state hands would be taken by ANC structures "and not any other grouping or task team as some had sought to suggest".
The ANC's national general council last year directed its national executive committee to form a task team to probe the viability of nationalisation and the state playing a greater role in key sectors of the economy.
The Limpopo ANC called for ANCYL president Julius Malema to be treated fairly, after questions over the source of his money were raised in various newspapers.
The Limpopo PGC expressed its support for the nationalisation of mines.
"We also support the nationalisation of mines and other strategic economic sectors as one of the necessary conditions for social ownership and control of our economy," ANC Limpopo secretary Joe Maswanganyi said in a statement.
Shivambu also welcomed the support of Mpumalanga's Nkangala region.
"We call on all provinces and regions of the ANC going to their respective RGCs [regional general councils] and PGCs to take official resolutions on nationalisation of mines and other strategic sectors of the economy," he said.
The league was "inspired" by support from ANC structures of policy decisions taken at its recent national conference. At the gathering in June the ANCYL resolved that mines and banks should be nationalised and that land should be expropriated without compensation.
