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SA Election 2009 Special Report
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The ANC is holding its quarterly NEC meeting, to discuss the outcome of the elections and how to implement its election manifesto.
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Montsho Matlala
Bethel - African National Congress Youth League president Julius Malema says he will not join Jacob Zuma's government when the party wins the elections in April.
"I am satisfied with my position in the Youth League and I intend finishing my term in office.
"The rumours that I will join the Presidency are all lies. I declined my nomination to the list of Parliamentarians," said Malema.
"I am a young person and happy to be in the youth movement," he added.
Malema was speaking to revellers at his 28th birthday party on Sunday at Seshego village near Polokwane in Limpopo.
He shared the day with ANC and ANCYL members, who were entertained by DJ Mahoota.
Malema, who vowed to discourage the youth from drinking on Sundays, would not confront revellers who openly drank alcohol at the party.
"The Youth League maintains that liquor stores should close on Sundays. We did not say people should not drink on Sundays.
"These people all brought their own stuff. We didn't supply them with alcohol," said Malema, who confessed to being a whisky drinker.
He didn't bring his grandmother, who raised him after his mother died when he was still young, or his two-year-old son to the party.
He said his grandmother once advised him against involving his son in his politics.
He wouldn't be drawn out on who the mother of his child is, only saying she was a "very private person" who lived in Seshego.
- African Eye
