The ANCYL’s website has been suffering a plethora of minor hack attacks over the course of the last 24 hours – and by “hack attack” we don’t mean pithy insults by liberal journalists.

Yesterday evening the landing page of ancyl.org.za looked like this:

This morning, a post on the ANCYL website titled “ANCYL National Working Committee statement on President Helen Zilla’s comments about Land Reform and Nationalisation of Mines” named “Helen Zilla” as the ANC President.

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Attempts to reach ANCYL spokesperson, Floyd Shivambu were, as is par for the course, met with a startled “Hello?”, at which point the word “journalist” was mentioned, quickly followed by muffled noises, and the ubiquitous telephone receiver tone.