ANC distances itself from ANCYL - but doesn't refer to their comment to 'take militant action'

SHOOT: This is the risk you take by employing someone with a less than perfect record for the role of president. It's good to see the ANC making an apology here, but one can't help feeling there is a general sense of corruption and malaise, suspicion and bad-mouthing going on. When you have dishonesty going on and you endorse it, you have to prove (come hook or by crook) that your accuser is more guilty than you are. It becomes quite an ugly mess.

clipped from www.news24.com While the ruling party strongly objected to Zille's criticism of President Jacob Zuma's sexual conduct on Tuesday that triggered a war of words, it could not tolerate the ANCYL's outburst. Zille was quoted in the media press as saying: "Zuma is a self-confessed womaniser with deeply sexist views, who put all his wives at risk by having unprotected sex with an HIV-positive woman." The Youth League hit back: "Zille has appointed an all male Cabinet of useless people, [the] majority of whom are her boyfriends and concubines so that she can continue to sleep around with them (sic), yet she claims to have the moral authority to question our President." Said Mantashe: "Zille's statements earlier in the week about President Jacob Zuma were indeed reprehensible and, quite correctly, were roundly condemned. "She justly deserves criticism for the unrepresentative composition of her Cabinet. "But this does not justify the comments by the ANC Youth League.