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Youth Politics

Noise over substance: The ANC Youth League is being strangled by slogans
Opinion
/ 3 July 2025

Noise over substance: The ANC Youth League is being strangled by slogans

Critical thinking is not anti-revolutionary and a return to intellectualism is vital for youth empowerment and national progress

By Siyanda Kate
Editorial: Keep building democracy
Article
/ 3 May 2019

Editorial: Keep building democracy

‘We are a country where democracy extends beyond the ballot. We live politics. It is our national conversation topic of choice and our soapie’

By Editorial
The youth want rapid change, and voting is one way to achieve it
Article
/ 26 October 2018

The youth want rapid change, and voting is one way to achieve it

The 2019 election marks the first time that young people will constitute the highest number of voters in South Africa, giving them plenty of power

By Aaisha Dadi Patel
Obituary for the late Mandla Makupula, MEC of Education in the Eastern Cape
Article
/ 19 October 2018

Obituary for the late Mandla Makupula, MEC of Education in the Eastern Cape

A true soldier of the struggle, till the very end

By Advertorial
​ANC enslaved by struggle habits
Article
/ 20 January 2017

​ANC enslaved by struggle habits

South Africa’s citizenry is not the blank slate the ANC wants it to be — and they need to accept that.

By Eusebius McKaiser
Leigh-Ann Naidoo: The anti-apartheid generation has become afraid of the future
Article
/ 17 August 2016

Leigh-Ann Naidoo: The anti-apartheid generation has become afraid of the future

The keynote address struck a chord with university students, who were encouraged to channel their discontent and use it to bring about change.

By Leigh Ann Naidoo
‘Youthquake’ rocks our political landscape
Article
/ 17 December 2015

‘Youthquake’ rocks our political landscape

Fifty percent of South Africans are under 30 and the majority are unemployed.

By Imraan Buccus
Khaya Dlanga: The youth vote will shape our future
Article
/ 13 November 2013

Khaya Dlanga: The youth vote will shape our future

A great war is brewing to win the vote of the born-frees, but just how they will wield that power in the ballot box is uncertain, writes Khaya Dlanga.

By Staff Reporter
Young commies split over Zuma
Article
/ 10 September 2010

Young commies split over Zuma

Attacks on President Jacob Zuma are continuing to polarise the Young Communist League.

By Mmanaledi Mataboge
Youth league ramps up its calls for autonomy
Article
/ 30 July 2010

Youth league ramps up its calls for autonomy

The ANC Youth League is to use its national general council in August to remind the ANC that it is an autonomous structure.

By Mmanaledi Mataboge
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Article
/ 18 May 2009

IFP youth in revolt

The aftershocks of the IFP’s dismal showing in the general election are still reverberating through the party.

By Niren Tolsi
Motoring with Malema’s mouth
Article
/ 28 February 2009

Motoring with Malema’s mouth

The ANC Youth League’s spokesperson tells Qudsiya Karrim why she’s up to the task.

By Qudsiya Karrim
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Article
/ 10 February 2009

Stirred, but not shaken

Ignoring the axe over her head, Cope’s youth leader builds her ‘brand’.

By Mmanaledi Mataboge
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Article
/ 6 February 2009

Does Malema really represent SA’s youth?

The <em>Mail & Guardian Online</em> took to the streets in Jo’burg on Friday to find out what some of SA’s youth think of ANCYL leader Julius Malema.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 5 February 2009

Getting the youth to the polls

Leaders of three of the most popular political movements talk about how they are planning to get their constituencies to the ballot box.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 4 February 2009

The politics of youth

Will generation next show up to vote?

Researchers say it’s high time that political parties begin to better understand the next generation.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 4 February 2009

Thinking out loud

At the M&G and Xstrata’s recent Critical Thinking Forum on youth politics, it was the crowd — as much as the panel — that stole the show.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 4 February 2009

Talking about the Constitution

Put a group of Johannesburg youths on Constitution Hill each Saturday to talk about democracy and the conversation goes large.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 30 November 2008

The ANCYL’s ‘cockroach’ fumigator

Mmanaledi Mataboge speaks to an ANC youth league member who has no regrets about his statement that Cope members should be killed.

By Mmanaledi Mataboge
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Article
/ 21 October 2008

The infantilisation of politics

Julius Malema’s rhetoric is mere flatulence unleashed across the land.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 7 July 2008

Taking charge

One of Vuyiswa Tulelo’s priorities as secretary general will be to ensure that the ANC Youth League ”becomes a place for young women”.

By Sello S Alcock

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