The ANC YL is a revolutionary movement of young people in Africa with a clear mandate outlined as a twin-task responsibility. ANC Youth League: Basic Policy Document 1948
Issued by the National Executive Committee of the ANC Youth League in 1948
The African National Congress Youth League established in April 1944 aims inter alia:
at rallying and uniting African youth into one national Front on
the basis of African Nationalism; at giving force, direction, and vigour to the struggle for African National Freedom, by assisting, supporting and reinforcing the National Movement - ANC; at studying the political, economical and social problems of Africa and the world; at striving and working for the educational, moral and cultural advancement of African youth. In order to rally all youths under its banner, and in order to achieve the unity necessary to win the national freedom of the African people, the Congress Youth League adopts the following basic policy, which is also a basis for its political, economic, educational, cultural and social programme:
