Hon House Chair, today, the ANC celebrates
10 September 1994, the launching of the ANC Youth League at Bantu Men's Social Centre in Johannesburg. Anton Muziwakhe Lembede was elected as the first president. The National Executive Committee elected in that conference included William Nkomo, Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, A P Mda, Robert Resha Robert Sobukwe, Mxolisi Majombozi, Oliver Tambo, Lillian Ngoyi, Duma Nokwe and Dan Tloome.
The ANC Youth League was formed to supplement, consolidate and give new imputes to the struggle against racial oppression, as champion by the ANC.
Emphasis was placed on African nationalism, which affirmed the role of Africans, as their own liberators within South Africa and abroad. African nationalism, espoused by the ANC Youth League did not imply reversed racism but emphasised the emancipation of Africa as the primary focus of political engagement and its manifesto of 1994.
For us to dearly understand the character of today's youth as a dynamic social construction, you must know about our youth renewal and development process, and that government officially use modern technology towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution, to strengthen a united South African Youth that wages war against alcohol abuse, drug abuse, rape, exclusion of youth from the economy, gender-based violence, femicide, violence against women and children in schools, institutions of higher learning, at home, churches, streets of South Africa, and youth unemployment.
Fight, produce and learn. We are proud of our past, confident of our future. Rest in peace, President Mugabe.