NATIONAL OFFICE BEARERS
Mzwandile Thakhudi
National Secretary
Nqobile Gumede
National Chairperson
Mandy Ramakgoakgoa
National Treasurer
Tsietsi Emancipation Letsebe
1st Deputy National Secretary
Thandeka Skhosana
Deputy National Chairperson
Siphelele Gavu
2nd Deputy National Secretary
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
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 from an active, legal electoral party to an underground military...
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 15 to 21 2005) On the contrary, both the SACP internal structures,...
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 the government -- to that of actually assuming the responsibility of...
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, the South African Communist Party [SACP] is not divided into...
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 sometimes creates illusions of being with others in the same place at the...
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 justify the maintenance or destruction of the capitalist system. This...
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