If he loses his appeal, the ANC will elect a new youth league leader.
But this was not enough to silence the Youth League or to allay investors' fears.
A. Morshed and Sohel Mostafa Swapan, head of a local branch of the ruling party's youth league.
The ANC Youth League said it was "deeply disturbed and angered by the irrational and illogical firing".
About the same time, Hu became head of the local Communist Youth League.
Malema and the ANC Youth League helped propel Zuma to power in 2009.
Further, their partnership also brings together the Princeling and Communist Youth League factions.
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Mr Motlanthe responded by urging the Youth League to respect the judiciary, earning the respect of many in the country.
African National Congress Youth League spokesperson Floyd Shivambu was glad that the verdict had brought an end to the "wild speculations".
Mr Malema's Youth League, who helped Mr Zuma come to power, are keen to deprive him of the second term he desperately wants.
Contrary to perceptions, such a posting was not a demotion - Youth League cadres are customarily transferred out of the organization after 40.
Auguring particularly ill for the future is the fact that ANC's Youth League is one of the most illiberal bodies in the party.
Although a former leader of the Communist youth league, he is a slick and ambitious 43-year-old who seems to model himself on Britain's Tony Blair.
Mr Malema has 14 days to appeal, but was already suspended for his statements on Zimbabwe and so must vacate his position as youth league leader immediately.
Most recently, President Jacob Zuma has struggled to control the ANC's militant Youth League leader, Julius Malema, who plays to the gallery of poor and marginalized black South Africans.
As a boy in Pozarevac, the north Serbian town where he was born 57 years ago, he was clever and competitive, running the school branch of the Communist Youth League.
"The African National Congress Youth League welcomes the decision of the IAAF to clear South African golden girl Caster Semenya to continue to be an athlete as a woman, " said Shivambu.
Last July, QSL Sports, a company backed by a Chinese tycoon, Adrian Cheng, and a Chinese-born American entrepreneur, Kenny Huang, reached an agreement with the government to create a youth league.
That Hu was able to make a smooth transition from the Youth League into political office is a testament to his abilities, plus the timely help he received from various patrons.
When the Youth League gathered to elect its leadership in April, the conference was suspended after some delegates got into drunken brawls, throwing chairs and exposing their bare bottoms to the media.
Aside from being among the most enthusiastic supporters of the move to end press freedom, the Youth League is also one of the primary forces driving foreign investors away from the country.
Populist leaders like the former African National Congress (ANC) Youth League leader Julius Malema have portrayed the NUM leadership as greedy fat cats, out of touch with the struggles of ordinary workers.
The recreational youth league, which has programs in 280 communities in 28 states, designates a specific value of sportsmanship being a good buddy, humility, leadership for coaches to emphasize each week.
But unless the period of his suspension is reduced on appeal, he would be too old to return as the head of the Youth League if he returns to the party in five years.
More significantly, for someone who began his career in the Communist Youth League and was an early supporter of Mr Milosevic, he dodges a question about whether he will now remain in the president's Serbian Socialist Party.
He was speaking in his home town, Polokwane, where he had been sitting a university exam in political studies while the ANC's disciplinary committee was announcing that he and five other top ANC youth league officials had been suspended.
But the ANC's leaders are probably strong enough to resist firebrands such as Julius Malema, the leader of the party's Youth League and a strident supporter of Mr Zuma, and so should be able to keep the party together for now.
After a tumultuous first term in office at the youth league - when he argued for radical policies such as the nationalisation of mines and the seizure of white-owned farms - he was re-elected for a second term in June 2011.
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