NATIONAL OFFICE BEARERS

Interim National Secretary

Jan Nabane (M) GP

Interim National Chairperson

Mzwandile Thakhudi (M) FS

Interim National Treasurer

Tarik Lalla (M) GP SASCO

Interim 1st Deputy National Secretary

Ponego Pookgoadi (F) MP

Interim 2nd Deputy National Secretary

Thandeka Nkosi (F) MM (KZN)

Interim Deputy National Chairperson

Dr Thabani Dlamini (M) EC

OUR VISION

We are devoted to the interests of all young people and dedicated to the revolutionary cause of the working class of our country and the globe.

OUR MISSION

We are committed to and struggle for the transformation of South Africa from a capitalist society to a socialist society in which there is no exploitation of one person or group by another.

CHARACTER

Be an independent and voluntary youth formation of young people from the age of 14 (fourteen) to the age of 35 (thirty-five) that derives its organisational existence from and functions as an autonomous youth wing of the SACP.

LATEST NEWS

Chris Hani Inquest

Chris Hani Inquest The YCL in its re-launching congress it resolved on the opening of the inquest on the death of the former General Secretary of the SACP comrade Chris Hani. It was believed...

Operation Khula campaign

Operation Khula campaign The YCL in 2006 launched operation Khula campaign mainly a recruitment drive. The objective was to reach the target of 100 000 membership before the congress. The...

ID Campaigns

ID Campaigns The organization has been running access to social service campaign coined under ID campaign. After the sentence of Kabelo Thibedi to 5 years in prison due to kidnap of home affairs...

The strength of the ANC does not lie in parliament

With the death of the New National Party, the SACP is the only political party remaining that contested for elections before the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950. Through the years, it has evolved...

We are more united than ever

RIGHT OF REPLY The SACP and the YCL are not divided on what the outcomes of the Party's Special National Congress are as suggested by Vicki Robinson ('Not now-but not never' Mail & Guardian, April...

Young people should vote – to determine their future

The advent of democracy in South Africa marshalled with it a plethora of challenges. This ranged, on the one hand, the liberation movement shifting from an adversarial underground operation towards...

State Power Debate!

The article by Rapule Tabane (Youth, SACP Bosses lock horns on Elections, Mail and Guardian, 18 March 2005) is misleading and greatly misrepresents my and those of the Young Communist League. Firstly...

Seeing left indicators from the right can sometimes be an illusion

(This is a response to ANCYL President Fikile Mbalula's article that appeared on ANC Today, the Weekly Online Newsletter of the ANC, on the 12 November 04) I always heard of stories that people...

Young people and the ideological struggles in South Africa

Introduction The process of class struggle and class formation underway in South Africa has been accompanied by fierce overt and covert ideological struggles through which classes interpret and...

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