The young leadership of the ANC and the South African Communist Party are at each other’s throats – and it’s a battle quite likely to end in tears.
The SACP Young Communist League boss says his role in helping get President Jacob Zuma elected is a highlight of his career.
The Progressive Youth Alliance has raised its concern over the low number of people aged 18-35 who have registered for next year’s elections.
The Progressive Youth Alliance will not support moves to declare education an essential service and thereby curtail teachers’ rights to strike.
YCL secretary Buti Manamela has stressed the need for Lonmin’s involvement in the strike that lead to the death of 44 people to be fully investigated.
Unions, the ANCYL and YCL have vowed to disrupt a DA-led march on Cosatu’s headquarters, warning it will mark the beginning of "open class warfare".
The Young Communist League has called for deputy agriculture minister Pieter Mulder to resign after comments he made about land reform redistribution.
The Young Communist League has dubbed Western Cape premier Helen Zille’s campaign of offering incentives to people testing for HIV/Aids as immoral.
The Young Communist League in KwaZulu-Natal is leading a mutiny against the league’s national secretary, Buti Manamela.
The YCL says it supports President Jacob Zuma’s decision to act on the conduct of Cooperative Governance Minister Sicelo Shiceka.
The ANCYL has over 500 000 members countrywide, but they don’t speak for all of the country’s youth. The <em>M&G</em> looks at alternatives.
The Gauteng provincial government has welcomed Cabinet’s approval of toll tariffs for the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project.
Factions in the SACP and the Young Communist League claim the parties are trying to silence dissident members in the run-up to elect new leaders.
While the Young Communist League offered a conciliatory message to the ANC Youth League, the ANC veterans had sterner words for the young ‘uns.
The Young Communist League (YCL) is flushing out members and leaders who wanted its national secretary, Buti Manamela, to step down.
The Young Communist League (YCL) will emerge out of its congress strong and united, President Jacob Zuma said on Sunday.
Young Communist League’s Buti Manamela has been re-elected unopposed as the organisation’s national secretary at a chaotic and violent congress.
Zwelinzima Vavi has defended his call for SACP boss Blade Nzimande to resign from government at the Young Communist League national conference.
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/ 26 November 2010
Buti Manamela’s position as the national secretary of the YCL will be challenged when the league holds its national congress in two weeks’ time.
Attacks on President Jacob Zuma are continuing to polarise the Young Communist League.
Youth leagues purge dissenters as they jostle for influence ahead of ANC’s 2012 conference
Disciplinary procedures against ANCYL spokesperson Floyd Shivambu by the Young Communist League (YCL) are under way, the YCL said on Monday.
ANC Youth League (ANCYL) spokesperson Floyd Shivambu has been suspended by the Young Communist League (YCL), an official said on Sunday.
The Young Communist League has rejected suggestions that it is plotting against ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema.
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/ 26 January 2010
SACP leader Blade Nzimande has been challenged by AfriForum to tell the public whether he associates himself with the statements of the YCL.
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/ 16 December 2009
The SACP is not trying to take over the ANC, said Young Communist League leader Buti Manamela on Wednesday.
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/ 11 December 2009
The Young Communist League will ”meet fire with fire” in defence of the SACP, going head-to-head with “drama queen” Julius Malema.
There is no conflict in Blade Nzimande being both SACP general secretary and higher education minister, the YCL said on Monday.
The Young Communist League has suspended Thursday’s planned mass action at Unisa campuses in protest against its vice-chancellor, Barney Pityana.
The Young Communist League on Tuesday called on the JSC to drop its investigation into a complaint against Judge John Hlophe.
An election rally in honour of freedom fighter Chris Hani on Saturday was turned into a day of mudslinging by the alliance partners of the ANC.
The Young Communist League (YCL) on Thursday said SABC’s acting CEO Gab Mampone should take responsibility for the news division.