There will be no chaos during the KwaZulu-Natal ANC Youth League conference at the weekend, it said on Thursday.

"Our congress will be peaceful. No distractions will take place. We are ready and prepared," said ANCYL provincial secretary Bheki Mtolo.

Last week, an ANCYL conference in the Eastern Cape had to be adjourned amid unruliness by delegates, a bomb scare and registration problems.

Disagreements in Limpopo last month were so serious that rivals of ANCYL president Julius Malema walked out of the conference.

"The preparations of the congress have gone very well and the congress will go ahead as planned," Mtolo said.

"The ANCYL wants to assure the youth of KwaZulu-Natal and the people in general that our congress will be peaceful and there will be no disruption."

The ANCYL's kwaZulu-Natal deputy chairperson Mthandeni Dlungane said the necessary security measures had been taken.

Qualifying delegates pre-registered

"We have pre-registered all qualifying delegates who will be allowed in the congress. We know who should and shouldn't be at the conference," Dlungane said.

Mtolo said the province's youth wing had 567 branches, of which 541 would attend the conference.

"We are expecting about 1115 delegates to attend the event," Mtolo said.

The ANCYL in KwaZulu-Natal was fully behind Malema and there were no divisions, Mtolo said.

"We are have full confidence in President Julius Malema. We don't have any factions in KwaZulu-Natal," he said.

Mtolo said Malema was expected to give the keynote address on Saturday morning. Not all sessions of the conference are open to the media.

KwaZulu-Natal was going to set an example to other provinces on how a conference should take place, said outgoing ANCYL provincial chairman Mxolisi Kaunda.

ANCYL has dig at IFP

Kaunda also said the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) should learn from it how to convene a conference.

The IFP's elective conference has been postponed several times.

The conference was supposed to take place in July last year, but was postponed until the beginning of 2010 because branches were not in good standing.

The IFP announced a few months ago that the conference would be held on 28 May, but last week said the conference had been postponed again to 23 July.